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Janeamanda
Partner
4 years ago
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MYOB AR EOFY Finalisation STP

Hi all, this is the first year I am doing a STP EOFY using AR2020.2  One of my clients that pays wages Fortnightly has already finished payruns for 2020 so I thought I would do the finalization. I ...
  • Tracey_H's avatar
    Tracey_H
    4 years ago

    Hi Janeamanda 

     

    Thanks for your post. Check that the Leave Loading payroll category has been ticked exempt from PAYG Withholding as this will exclude it from STP. To check this go to Payroll Categories, open the payroll category and click on the Exempt button. If it has been ticked, you would need to untick it and then process a $0 pay to update STP.

     

    Please let me know if you need further help.

     

    If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

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Tracey_H
Former Staff

Hi Janeamanda 

 

Thanks for your post. Check that the Leave Loading payroll category has been ticked exempt from PAYG Withholding as this will exclude it from STP. To check this go to Payroll Categories, open the payroll category and click on the Exempt button. If it has been ticked, you would need to untick it and then process a $0 pay to update STP.

 

Please let me know if you need further help.

 

If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

RayJordan's avatar
RayJordan
Experienced Cover User
4 years ago

Hello,

 

I have the same problem but the suggested solution is not applicable.

 

We have 4 employees. Every pay run includes either 3 or 4 pays (one casual sometimes skips a week). The EOFY Finalisation total does not agree with the Gross Payments as shown in the Payroll Reporting Centre (Reports tab - added up the 52 weeks manually) or any of the regular payroll reports.

 

The difference is exactly one pay run for 2 of our employees. Can't tell which one of the last 9 pay runs - they have all been identical. But that makes no sense to me because all 9 of those pay runs have been for 3 employees. The figures for the third employee all match.

 

The payroll reports for those 2 employees also shows that exact same difference from the EOFY Finalisation. Employees 3 and 4 are in agreement between EOFY Finalisation and the other reports.

 

I checked out the solution above. None of our payroll categories have been marked as exempt from tax, so that's not it.

 

Any help would be much appreciated, so that we can get this fixed and "Set as final".

 

Thanks,

Ray

 

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    Michellec65
    Experienced User
    4 years ago

    Hi Ray

     

    I also had no errors in my wages but just ended up doing the zero payroll run and lodging it to ATO and this fixed the bug in MYOB. don't foget to remove your leave accruals btw

    • RayJordan's avatar
      RayJordan
      Experienced Cover User
      4 years ago

      Thanks Michellec65 ... I think :-)

       

      So there's actually an acknowledged bug in AR2020.2 that is causing this?

       

      I may try a zero pay run to see if it will fix it, but first I need to understand "don't foget to remove your leave accruals btw". Remove them from where?

       

      Now I'm off to learn how to do a zero pay run, somehow backdated into the 2019/20 FY.

       

      Note to MYOB - I (and all your other customers) really have better things to do than waste valuable hours messing around with this stuff.

       

      Ray

      • RayJordan's avatar
        RayJordan
        Experienced Cover User
        4 years ago

        Ok, I did a zero pay run. It went smoother than I had anticipated, given that I was going back to FY 2019/20 and after having done one pay run in FY 2020/21 already.

         

        Nothing appeared to have changed - the new zero pay run was there in the Reports list in the Payroll Reporting Centre. But the EOFY Finalisation summary was still wrong.

         

        So I closed the Payroll reporting Centre conpletely and then opened it again (again). Bingo. It's all correct now. Who would have figured that one part of the Payroll Reporting Centre would update immediately (the Reports list), but another part would not (the EOFY Finalisation tab).

         

        Happy that it's right now. Not happy that I have burned about 12 hours getting there. Message to MYOB - where do I send the invoice?

         

        Ray