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AccountRight Plus and Premier (v2018.2 and later), Australia only

When you finalise an employee, you're telling the ATO that your payroll reporting is complete for the financial payroll year and that the employee can now complete their tax return.

If you need to make changes to change an employee's pay after finalising, you need to indicate this to the ATO by undoing the finalisation. You'll then be able to make your changes and finalise again with the correct amountsOnce you've made your changes, you can finalise again.

You might do this when you need to:

• report on an employee who has left the business has returned within the same payroll yearfix a pay

• prevent an employee completing their tax return while you investigate an issue

• correct an overpayment or underpayment

• update payroll or ATO reporting categories.

The basic process you follow is:

1. Undo the finalisation.

2. Make your changes.

3. Redo the finalisation

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Fixing a pay

How you correct an overpayment or underpayment fix a pay depends on whether your changes affect the current or a previous financial year. If you're making changes in:

• the current financial year, you just need to adjust their next pay to account for the overpayment or underpaymentchange. If your pay adjustment affects YTD amounts, the updated amounts will be sent with your next pay run. See Fixing a payroll overpayment or underpayment Changing a recorded pay.
• a previous financial year, you need to restore a backup and make your changes. Note that whatever changes you make to the restored file will not be reflected in your current file and you may need to update your historical payroll data.

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