Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 Webinar
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Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 webinar
See below information on the STP Phase 2 key changes.
See link to Single Touch payroll Phase 2 Webinar recording
Intro/Why
The Government announced that Single Touch Payroll (STP) would be expanded to include additional information.
Under Single Touch Payroll Phase 2, the Australian Government will require all employers to report additional information through STP on or before each payday.
This information will include details such as income or payment type and the reason for any cessation of employment.
All Australian businesses that have employees on their payroll will be impacted by this change.
- Reduce the burden for employers reporting to multiple Government agencies
- Improve visibility of payroll data to support the delivery of social welfare
- Reducing the need for separation certificates
- Reducing the need to send Tax Declarations to the ATO ( you are still required to get a signed tax declaration from your employee)
Most of the work has been done in the back ground, however there are some things that need to be done to ensure that we report the right things
There are a couple of things we need to do
Key changes
- Disaggregation of gross - SBR Mapping
- Cessation/Termination reason - Payroll Headers - freelancer to employee
- Tax treatment codes
- Country codes - particularly for WHM
- Tax Declarations - Not changing in jobBag for now but no need to send, you can still get it from ATO
Disaggregation (split up) of Gross
- Under Single touch payroll Phase 1 everything was reported under Gross, except for some allowances.
- Now Gross will be split out and reported separately
- Ordinary time will to still go Gross.
- Paid, cashing out and Unused leave
- Bonuses, director fees, allowances, Lump sum Payments and deductions
- This is only from a Single touch payroll level
- All of this will still be rolled up and reported in Gross on employees Income statements and reporting in your GL as salaries, super etc
- JobBag has introduced SBR Mapping
Introducing SBR/STP mapping
- All of payroll kinds that you use will need to be SBR/STP mapped before you can commence reporting
- Default kinds which include Ordinary times earnings, superannuation, leave and balance sheets must be mapped
- Other kinds such as allowances, deductions, bonuses/commissions, Paid parental leave etc only need to be mapped if they are used
If you go to the File menu > configuration > payroll > SBR Mapping or Payroll > Single Touch Payroll > Map Kinds
See screenshot below about how to SBR map your kinds
Ordinary Hours, Superannuation, Super sacrifice, Salary PAYG paid/accrued - MUST BE MAPPED
Leave mapping - MUST BE MAPPED
Checkout our help page for further details on SBR mapping
Payroll header
New payroll IDs are required for each address book type, so and employee becomes a freelancer or vice vers a payroll header needs to be created for employees, Freelancers, talent and Voluntary PAYG
Employment, tax and super info is added with in the Payroll header container
Cessation/termination reason
Enter end date and leave reason in the Payroll Header
Country codes - Country of Origin
Country of Origin needs to be reported and included in the employees Address book record.
The country will need to be set up under the file > configurations > countries menu
- Working holiday makers on visa 417, 462 and now 408
- Foreign Employment
- Inbound Assignee's to Australia
Note: you must be registered with the ATO as an Employer with Working Holiday Makers, otherwise a higher rate of tax applies.
Termination Kinds
Make old termination kind Inactive and replace with these new set below
SBR Mapping
Address types - Home address update for tax
Change your address type to be used only can be updated by the tax declaration
Superannuation Table - Countries
The Countries window (File/Configuration/Countries) now has a table that shows the history of the Superannuation Guarantee Contribution changes since 2002-03. The historical rates reflect in Employment info and payroll-related reports.
In future, add a new year for each employment type and the new rate, it will automatically complete the prior entry (i.e you don't fill in the finish date, JobBag will do that for you).
Next Steps
- Complete 2022 in current version of JobBag
- Report final figures to the ATO via SBR as normal
- Process any pays in July 2022 on the current version
- Tell us when you have sent final info for 2022 to the ATO
- We upgrade you to the latest build (likely 81223 or later)
- You must be on this new version by 1 August 2022.
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