AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia only Australian tax legislation usually changes at the start of each payroll year. If the tax legislation has changed for the payroll year you are starting, you need to update the tax tables in your company file before processing pays for the year.(see also: AccountEdge and AccountRight v19 information). | UI Text Box |
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| The most recent Latest tax tables have a revision date of 01/07/2015 and apply from 1 July 2015. If you have an AccountRight subscription |
, AccountRight will automatically check for PAYG tax table updates, compliance and other updates for your software, each time you open your file. If an update is available, you'll be notified when opening your company file. For more information, see Manage software updates.Not sure if you have the latest version or an AccountRight subscription? Check your update options (you'll need your serial number).| UI Expand |
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| - Go to the Setup menu and choose General Payroll Information. The Tax Table Revision Date shows the effective date of the tax tables that are currently loaded. If there are newer tax tables, you'll need to load them (see the following procedure).
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| title | To load the tax tables |
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| - If you haven't already done so, install AccountRight 2015.3 (you'll see a notification that the update is available when opening your company file).
Open the company file you want to update. | UI Text Box |
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| If you have multiple versions of AccountRight installed, ensure you open AccountRight 2015.3. To see which version you have opened, go to the Help menu and choose About MYOB AccountRight. |
- Go to the Setup menu and choose Load Payroll Tax Tables. The Load Tax Tables window appears
- Click Load Tax Tables.
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You only need to complete these steps once for each company file. and you're using the latest version, the new tax tables will be used in your software for pays with a payment date of July 1 and later. |
The ATO release updated tax tables, also called the tax scales, each year. They contain the rates of tax to be applied to your employees' pays so the correct amount of tax is withheld.
If you're using the latest AccountRight version and you're connected to the internet, you'll always have access to the most up to date tax tables. When you add an employee to AccountRight, you'll specify which tax table applies to them, such as Tax Free Threshold, Foreign Resident, etc. Learn more about assigning tax tables to your employees. Tax table automationWhen you process a pay, AccountRight looks at the Payment Date and checks if you have the required tax tables in your file. If you don't, AccountRight will download them. This means if the Payment Date is 30 June or earlier, the 2022 tax tables will be used. But if the Payment Date is 1 July or later, the 2023 tax tables will be used. You'll see which tax tables are being used during the payroll process.  Image Added
In a nutshell—you choose the Payment Date and AccountRight chooses which tax tables to use. This keeps you in the good books with the ATO—and your employees. The Tax Table Revision Date shown in AccountRight (Setup menu > General Payroll Information) is based on your last recorded pay. So once you've processed a pay with a Payment Date of 1 July 2023 or later, the Tax Table Revision Date will be updated:  Image Added
Not connected to the internet?For AccountRight to access to the most up to date tax tables, you'll need to be connected to the internet. If you're not, AccountRight won't be able to download the latest tax tables. If you are connected to the internet but AccountRight can't download the latest tax tables, there might be a temporary glitch at our end. Either way, make sure you're connected to the internet and try again.  Image Added
You can choose to continue processing the pay using last year's (outdated) tax tables, but the wrong amount of tax might be calculated. By using the latest tax tables you'll remain compliant and avoid a possible tax debt for your employees. | HTML |
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<h2><i class="fa fa-comments"></i> FAQs</h2><br> |
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| title | How do I handle PAYG Withholding Variations? |
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| Can I see the tax scales used to calculate PAYG Withholding?Yes, if you're keen to look under the hood you can see the tax scales in AccountRight which are provided by the ATO. - Go to the Payroll command centre > Payroll Categories > Taxes tab.
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| | The image above shows the tax scales for 2021 and is not current. |
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| title | How is PAYG calculated? |
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| How is PAYG calculated?You don't need to worry about this bit, but if you're interested, here's how PAYG is calculated using the tax scales in the PAYG Withholding category (Payroll command centre > Payroll Categories > Taxes tab > click the blue zoom Image Added arrow to open the PAYG Withholding category).  Image Added
PAYG withholdings = (Weekly wage amount x a) - b Using the values shown in the 2021 example above (which isn't using the latest tax tables) for an employee that has been assigned the Tax Free Threshold tax table and a fortnightly wage of $1500. The calculation would be as follows: Fortnightly wage = $1500
"a" coefficient = 0.3450
"b" coefficient = 182.7504 so, ($1500 x 0.3450) - 182.7504 = $334.7496 | UI Text Box |
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| | The image and example above use the 2021 tax scales which are not current. |
Note that when processing a pay using this example, the PAYG amount will be rounded to $334.75, or it might be different by a few cents if you've chosen to round the net pay (Setup menu > General Payroll Information). The tax table information is set by the ATO. So, if you have any queries, please ask the ATO (or use their Tax Withheld Calculator). |
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