For those who employ contractors on a time basis and are required to pay superannuation to those contractors, it would be good if there was an easier way to do this than the workarounds currently used.
It appears that most people are using an external super clearing house for Super payments to contractors due to the errors generated if trying to setup as an employee and process through MYOB see :
https://community.myob.com/discussions/staffing_and_payroll/paying-super-for-contractors/879829?after=MjUuMTB8Mi4xfG98MTB8MTQ6MCwzOToxfDIw
Perhaps it is possible to have a linked account e.g. 'Contractors Labour subject to Super' to allocate the contractor's labour payments to (it might need to be specific to that Contractor ??),
this account would need to behave like an expense category, remove the GST (if applicable) and then calculate the super on that exGST labour $ value,
and link that super $ value to the Contractor's Super Account (probably still need to set them up as an employee but with no wage), it would be good if there was a button that would appear on this type of account ('Contractors Labour subject to Super') to pay their super when paying the contractors invoice and have it all happen automatically.
Maybe there's a better way to do it than I've suggested, I don't know the inner workings of MYOB.
In the mean time, if people have been successful in paying super to contractors through MYOB, please share what employee settings you needed to use ? (e.g. Labour Hire on both income type and employment basis ??)
