The exemption from tax for the first $320 was removed quite a while ago if you have this marked as tax exempt you “may” find this is the issue
Hi Paul
I phoned MYOB STP support today, no help what so ever. They suggested manually entering zero in the year to date leave loading in employee card details (he suggested this as the business was sold two weeks ago and I am no longer processing wages. He then said process pay again with the leave loading amount. Sounded crazy to me. Detailed payroll summary shows the leave loading but is not appearing in EOFY STP finalisation.
I suspect the issue is from your legacy setup of allocating the first $320 of leave loading separately. Is this payroll category marked as tax exempt (I suspect it is, as this was the case years ago). In which case the ATO is seeing it as tax exempt income and not processing it to payroll summaries.
To test please try the following
Process a payroll run for one of the employees
Enter minus $320 for the first $320 payroll category
Enter positive $320 for the standard leave loading category
Override/ Zero out any entitlements tax and super should not be effected etc but if they are zero them also
Finalise and send the payroll transaction to the ATO.
Note you are processing a net payment of Zero dollars as the plus and minus cancel each other out.
Check if this employee/ total reported has updated. If so proceed to do the same with your other employees.
Please report back how you get on so others may benefit.
PS if it works mark my response as a solution .
Hi Paul
I to had the same issue with the leave loading being less than $320 as tax exempt and not showing on the payment summaries.
I've tried as suggested entering a minus $320 against the original payroll category and a positive against the standard leave loading category. The payroll is zero and recorded and sent to the ATO. I've gone back into to check if the correction has had any affect on the payment summaries but it's still showing the same.
I also tried originally as another poster to unselect tax to be taken our the leave loading and processed zero payroll again this had no affect on the payment summary.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm running out of ideas.
Hi Lynch
If everything is correct, ticks etc it should process correctly
Bear in mind the ATO takes a little while to update from sent to accepted
Failing that contact me direct after 7pm (Adelaide time) and I can organise a remote login with you to investigate further
Thanks Paul.
Yes finally it is fixed.
