Roll Over Payroll Year before finalising STP?
Hi all,
I have two questions here:
Firstly, can I roll over the payroll year before finalising STP i.e. sending the confirmed figures to the tax office? As the instruction video said we can do so by the 14th of July. Given that we need to process the weekly pay tomorrow so I would like to know if we can roll over the payroll year first and download all the new updates and tax tables, and finalise the figure for last financial year by the 14th and send them to the tax office later?
Secondly, I notice that the Gross Pay figure reported on the Payroll Reporting/EOFY Finalisation window for one employee is incorrect. What happened was the employee terminated on 1/1/2019 (for example), but we forgot to exclude her from the following pay week so her pay was processed and sent to the tax office before we discover the problem. What I did was to manually reverse the payroll jorunal in MYOB but apparently her gross figure in the STP report included that one week extra pay . However the payroll activity report is showing the correct amount, which means that the reversal was captured by the payroll actvity report but not the STP report. I would like to know if I can submit the wrong figure to MyGov but send a correct payment summary to the employee asking her to use the payment summary to correct her tax return? Is MYOB tech team able to solve the problem before 14th of this month so I can wait until the 14th to report the figrues to the tax office?
If anyone can share some thoughts before cob today it will be greatly appreciated!
Terry
Hi Terry_W
Thanks for your post. Yes, you can roll over the payroll year after you’ve finished payment summaries and before the first pay in July. Once you’ve rolled over the year, install the compliance update and then load the new tax tables. The finalisation can occur afterwards. You will need to back up your company file to refer back to this data. Make sure you can identify and find the file name for easy lookup when you need it. See the ATO links Finalising your Single Touch Payroll Data and End-of-year finalisation through Single Touch Payroll for additional information.
Since you're on AccountRight I'll link some handy videos for EOFY including:
End of Year Finalisation with STP
Preparing Payment Summaries in AccountRight & AccountEdge
A quick guide to an easy EOFY in MYOB AccountRight & AccountEdge
For your second question, if you are already reporting through STP you will need to have the correct figures sent to the ATO through STP. If the employee was finalised prior to STP reporting then they will receive a payment summary and can complete in myGov. To correct the figures you can make the employee active and do a $0 pay run to create an update pay event that will send to the ATO.
I hope this clarifies. If this resolves your inquiry please mark "Accept as Solution" so other users can find this post easier. Let me know how you go with this.
