Can Australian employers on STP issue 2018-19 Employee Income Statements for their employees ?

[Kym__Yeoward]

With the move to Single Touch Payroll, Australian employers  using STP are no longer required to issue annual Payment Summaries to their staff - for example, for 30 June 2019.

Nevertheless, many staff will be asking for their Payment Summaries when July comes around.

After the Finalisation Declaration for 2018-19 has been submitted to the Aust Tax Office (through the STP Reporting screen), is here a way for an employer to print copies of each employee's Income Statement, to email or hand to them ?  As many employees will not yet have setup their own My Gov account, or don't know how to do that - or don't have access to the Internet or don't speak English well (e.g. remote indigenous staff).

All so complicated now - years ago, in the 60's, an employer could just buy tax stamps from the local Post Office and give them to the employee, to include with their tax return. E.g. wool growers, when paying their  shearers.

Kym Yeoward CPA & CC

Darwin (Palmerston)

[gavin12345]

Hi @Kym__Yeoward 

This is likely to be a common question, so yes would be good for an official response from MYOB.

See my post here https://community.myob.com/t5/AccountRight-Staffing-and/ATO-reporting-for-Employee-NOT-processed-thr...

As mentioned, many employers will still provide a payment summary (and just not send the empdupe file) - hopefully the MYOB generated payment summary amounts will agree with the myGov Income Statements, otherwise the forum will be flooded with related queries.

Regards

Gavin

[Steven_M · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kym__Yeoward  @gavin12345 

A user can still generate the payment summaries for an employee through Payroll>>Prepare Payment Summaries.

However, if you have set up payroll reporting, paid that employee within the software and reported that pay to the ATO, then that payment summary (& EMPDUPE) may not be required to be produced as you have reported that information via payroll reporting. 

Note: If you have not processed a pay for that employee since setting up payroll reporting then a payment summary may be required to be produced. Alternatively, a zero pay would be required to report the year-to-date information of that employee to the ATO through Payroll reporting.