Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

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Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

I have checked my 2018/19 payments summaries and leave loading less than $320 is not calculating in the Gross payments. Have checked the STP and the payroll category is marked as Gross payments

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

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 


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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

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.

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

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 .

 

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

I had this problem as well.  The only way I was able to fix was do a pay for each employee that had less than $320 figures in. 

 For example  I did a pay  -$400 in the less than $320 category then $400 in the greater than $400 category.  I had to add .01 cents in the wages category as it wouldnt accept a zero pay cheque. (You wouldnt have to do this if you were just adjusting the figures in a pay before the end of the year that had normal pay run figures.)

 

I made sure that all other figures were zero.

 

Report now balances.

 

MYOB:   Please let all users know if they have used this category.

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

All fixed, it was marked as tax exempt = I removed this and processed all pays as $0 and all fixed now.

 

thanks heaps

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

I also had this problem at the end of year payg summaries....problem resolved when changing the leave loading from exempt from PAYG and then running a zero pay for those employees.  This fixed the totals in the EOFY summaries. 

My question now is.....Is the leave loading now not exempt from PAYG.. had always thought it was exempt??

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

I’m really not sure, i thought under $320 was exempt. Although, I have just started a new MYOB account and the preset wage category only has Leave Loading (one category)??? Any advice would be nice :-) 

 

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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

The exemption for the first $320 was removed in 2012
See page 3
https://www.ato.gov.au/uploadedFiles/Content/MEI/downloads/BUS00319019N10050512.pdf
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Re: Leave loading less than 320 not appearing on end of year payment summary

Also this year ATO has “clarified “ (I think that is another word for changed their mind) that leave loading will as a general rule be classified as ordinary time earnings and be subject to super unless specifically paid as a payment for lost normal overtime Got to love the ATO ordinary time earnings when they are not even at work!!!
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