Step 1 – Employee details

Enter the employee’s personal details and Tax file number.

If you’ve already entered their address into MYOB Essentials, you may need to reformat it to meet the ATO’s requirements.

When you’re done, click Next.

Step 2 - PAYG Summary details

Choose the type of payment summary and the dates it covers.

New or amended payment summary

Note that you should only create an amendment if you need to make changes to a payment summary you’ve already lodged with the ATO. If you’re making changes to a payment summary that you haven’t lodged, select the No, this is a new PAYG summary option.

Period worked by employee

If the employee worked for you for the entire financial year, select Yes. If they only worked for you for part of the year, select No and choose the dates they were employed.

When you’re done, click Next.

Step 3 - Assign earnings and deductions

Classify each of the earnings and deductions paid to the employee during the financial year into one of the following categories. This ensures they're included in the correct section of the PAYG payment summary.

Earnings

You can classify earnings into one of three categories, depending on the reason for the payment or the type of allowance.

• Gross—Amounts that are included in the employee’s gross pay, before tax. This includes salary, wages, bonuses and commissions, personal leave pay, and allowances paid for working conditions, special qualifications or extended hours, or to cover expenses that aren’t tax deductible, such as transport between work and home. If you’ve used an allowance to pay any of these amounts, you should assign it to Gross. For example, you might have set up an allowance in MYOB Essentials to pay commissions. Because commissions aren’t treated as allowances for tax purposes, but need to be included in the employee’s gross pay, you should assign this allowance to Gross.
• Allowance—Amounts paid to employees on top of their pay, to cover their work-related expenses. This includes travel, uniform and tools allowances, as well as motor-vehicle allowances and car expense payments paid per-kilometre.
• Exclude—Amounts that don’t need to be included in the PAYG payment summary. This may include some fringe-benefit allowances, such as living-away-from-home allowance.

Deductions

You can classify deductions into one of four categories, depending on the type of deduction.

• Employer super—Reportable superannuation contributions, such as salary sacrifice amounts, additional payments to superannuation or additional contributions above the compulsory level. Note that this doesn’t include ordinary employee or employer superannuation contributions. Learn more about Reportable Employer Super Contributions.
• Union fee—Amounts deducted from the employee’s pay for union, association or professional fees.
• Workplace giving—Tax-deductible donations, authorised by the employee, to recognised charities or organisations that are entitled to receive tax-deductible donations.
• Exclude—Amounts that are exempt from inclusion in the PAYG payment summary. This includes some voluntary deductions requested by the employee, such as social club membership or cafeteria plans.

For more information about how to classify individual earnings and deductions, see the ATO website.

When you’re finished assigning earnings and deductions, click Next.

Step 4 - Check assignments are correct

This step lists all of the earnings and deductions included in each category (the parts of the payment summary, like Gross payments and Total allowances, etc.). Check that these are correctly assigned.

If an earning or deduction appears under the wrong category, you can change it by returning to step 3 (click Edit assignments) and assigning it differently.

Note that any earnings or deductions assigned to the Exclude category won’t appear here. Only categories that will be included on the payment summary are shown.

When you’re done, click Next.

Step 5 - Enter other income items

If you've paid the employee any additional income not tracked by MYOB Essentials, include it on their payment summary by entering it in this step. For more information on these categories, see the ATO website.

Enter the following amounts in whole dollars:

• Community development employment projects (CDEP) payments—The total amount you've paid the employee from a CDEP wages grant.
• Reportable fringe benefits—The grossed-up taxable value of fringe benefits given to the employee. Note that fringe benefits are only reportable if the total taxable value exceeds the threshold set by the ATO.
  If you've selected the option in your payroll settings indicating that your business falls under Section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986, you'll see two fields: Reportable fringe benefits (non-exempt)—Grossed-up value of reportable fringe benefits not exempt by section 57A. Reportable fringe benefits (exempt)—Grossed up value of reportable fringe benefits exempt under section 57A.
• Deductible amount of the undeducted purchase price of the annuity—The deductible portion of the amount the employee contributed towards the purchase price of any non-superannuation annuities or pensions you pay them. The deductible amount is the part of their annual pension or annuity income that represents a return to them of their personal contributions that is free from tax. Only enter the deductible amount in this section.
• Lump sum A—Redundancy or termination payments made to the employee during the financial year. Select either Redundancy payment or Termination payment.
• Lump sum B—Payments made to the employee in exchange for long service leave accrued before 16 August 1978.
• Lump sum D—The tax-free component of a redundancy payment or early retirement scheme payment.
• Lump sum E (back payments)—Amounts paid for back payment of salary and wages accrued more than 12 months ago, as well as any return to work payments.
• Exempt foreign employment income—Income earned overseas that is exempt from tax. For more information, see the ATO website.

When you’re done, click Done! Next employee.

When you’ve finished the final employee, enter the authorised signatory for the summaries, and click Continue to review. The Review payment summaries page appears, showing a summary of the amounts included on each employee’s PAYG payment summary.

See the task below.

Did you report exempted fringe benefits under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act (FBTAA) 1986?

If you've selected the option in your payroll settings indicating that your business falls under section 57A of the FBTAA 1986, you'll produce two payment summaries for each employee for whom you entered both non-exempt and exempt reportable fringe benefits.

• One payment summary will show the amount of fringe benefits covered by Section 57A and the Is the employer exempt from FBT under section 57A of the FBTAA 1986? question on the payment summary will be marked as Yes.
• The second payment summary will show the amount of “other” reportable fringe benefits, and the Is the employer exempt from FBT under section 57A of the FBTAA 1986? question will be marked as No. On this payment summary, no other payment details will be printed.

Enter lodgement details

1. Choose whether you lodge your own PAYG payment summaries report with the ATO or whether you use a third party (for example, your accountant or bookkeeper) to do it for you.
2. Enter your business details, including your business’s address, your ABN or WPN and the contact details of the person at your company lodging the PAYG payment summaries. If you're using a third party to lodge the payment summaries, enter this information for them as well.

Create and lodge the EMPDUPE file

1. Click Create EMPDUPE file. This creates an electronic file that you can save on your computer. When you click this button, you might be prompted to save or open the file. Choose Save (or Save As) and take note of where you save the file. If you aren’t prompted for where to save the file, it may have already been saved to your Downloads folder, or to your default download location.
   
   

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2. Lodge this file using the ATO Business Portal. Log in to the Business Portal using your myGov credentials and go to the Lodge file page (you'll see it in the menu), select Lodge > Browse and then find and select your EMPDUPE file in the window that appears.

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   After lodging your payment summary annual report (EMPDUPE) via the ATO business portal, a confirmation report is generated.

   If your confirmation report displays a WM02 warning about "street address line 2", you can ignore this warning. It's simply advising that the second line of your business address is blank. For most addresses this is normal.

   This warning will not prevent your EMPDUPE file from lodging successfully. Check your confirmation report to ensure your EMPDUPE file lodgement was successful.

Reprinting a payment summary

Amending a payment summary

Reportable Employer Super Contributions

End of financial year in Australia

Payroll reports and past payslips