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Changing an employee from casual to permanent
Hi one of our employees is changing from casual to permanent and I have created a new employee profile for them since I found out you cant change the status of an existing employee profile but my question is do I put a termination date on the casual profile from the date they changed to permanent or just leave it?
Unable to select correct period to file GST return
When I go to file the GST return via MYOB, I'm unable to select the correct period end (May 2025) from the dropdown: Incidentally, all the available dates are prior to the first GST return I filed with MYOB (which was for the period 1/8/24-30/9/24). Seems like somebody released a bug. What can I do to file the return?
Unable to select the correct period to file GST return
I am preparing the GST return using MYOB account right Premier. However, the correct period end (Apr 25 to May 25) does not appear in the dropdown list. When we started a new financial year last year, I selected the option to keep all records, but I believe we may have now reached the three-year max data limit. As our accountant is still working on the EOFY 2025 report, we are unable to start a new financial year at this stage. Could someone kindly advise what we should do to proceed and prepare the GST return for the period Apr 25 to May 25?Issue with Acepayroll GL not connecting to accountright
Is anyone else having issues with what I think is a feature but appears to have stopped working. Acepayroll not longer allows you to set up the GL for accountright to automatically send through the journalling transactions - I do weekly pay runs and for close to a year I have been manually journalling my pay run
MYOB Payroll 2025.1 & Decommissioning
FYI: MYOB Payroll 2025.1 - March 2025 MYOB Payroll 2025.1 updates the ACC earner levy rate, ESCT and extra pay tax thresholds for the 2025 to 2026 financial year. MYOB Payroll will be decommissioned on 1 April 2026. After this date, features, patches, compliance updates and support will no longer be provided. Visit our page about MYOB Payroll coming to an end for more information and migration options. MYOB Payroll 2025.1 - March 2025
Paid Parental Leave
I have a staff member who is going on PPL in a few weeks and I am trying to make sure I am sorted as it has been over 5 years since I last had to deal with PPL and obviously not in the new Payroll system. I see there are 2 options on how to deal with PPL, (excluding the employee, or including the employee from pay runs) and the easiest for me is to exclude the employee. MYOB says to add a termination date and then re-instate the employee when (if) they start back, however I am worried that this would mean they aren't accruing the Annual Holidays they are entitled to? Previously in the old system you were able to go into the employee tab and change their status to 'on PPL' so I am just wanting to double check I am doing it correctly. Also, we were told last year that the Split Pays function would be back this year - do we have an updated time frame for this as I have staff asking for this to happen? Thanks in advance :-)
Change IRD number & AIM Tax return
Hello I have a client who is changing on 1/4/25 from an individual sole trader paying AIM tax on a monthly payments basis, to a Partnership (different IRD Number) and GST & AIM tax on a two monthly payments basis. Can I finish up year end 31/3/25 then change the IRD Number and AIM tax basis from 1/4/25? Thank you for any advice. Regards SandraKiwi saver contribution refund
Morning, we have a new employee who provided an opt out of KS form in his employment pack. As required he was auto enrolled (I intended to opt him out after the mandatory 14+ days), the first deduction was made on day 8 of employment however on day 10 of employment I received a savings suspension notice for him from IRD. By my error a further deduction was made on day 16 of his employment I have refunded this as a non taxable earning in our last pay run and edited my PAYE IRD submission. My problem is now my MYOB pay run items and my PAYE on IRD and different will this be an issue going forward. (NOTE: I did call IRD to see what takes priority a) the opt out form or b) the letter from IRD, she advised its most likely the IRD letter however I should opt him out anyway and they will let me know what to do from there.)Timesheet (manual entry)
hi, I am new to myob payroll and trying to do a pay run, but it seems like I cannot enter my employee hours myself anywhere or even upload a timesheet, as we have only 1 employee who does not want to use myob team to enter hours. Is there any manual way to input the employee hours thanksTaxation of extra pay when employment ends
Hi, The release notes for MYOB payroll desktop version 2025.1 included the above note re: taxation of extra pay when employment ends. The extract notes the change to the annualised calculation to now be based on two weeks instead of four weeks; however, the IRD website is still stating the calculation is to be based on four weeks? MYOB - can you please advise where this change was initiated from? Also, the old calculation of 4 weeks was multiplied by 13 - are you now suggesting the two weeks to be multiplied by 26 instead?
Pay run in wrong financial year
I have a pay run that ended on 30th March (EOY) which I didn't process until 2 April and didn't realize that it would go into this current financial year totals and had already submitted it to the IRD, how do I reverse this pay run so that it reflects in our totals for YE 31/3/25 and how do I reverse the submitted IRD payment. Much appreciated for any help. Thanks
