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Once you have completed your activity statement (BAS or IAS) you need to record the ATO payment owing to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) or the credit you receive from the ATOor credit (the payment you owe them or the payment they owe you). This support note provides guidelines on recording this transaction.

 

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titleDetermine the information to record

You will need to have a print out or access to your BAS/IAS. From this you will need to look at the back sheet. This will give you the information needed to enter your transaction.

The table below provides a brief description of the BAS fields and how an ATO payment is entered, in other words positive or negative, through the Banking command centre using Spend Money.

BAS Field

Field Name

Description

Account number   example

In Spend Money   the entry is +/-

1A

Goods and   Services tax payable

This is the GST   that you have collected.

2-1210

+ (Positive)

1B

Goods and   services and services tax paid

This is the GST   that GST that you have paid.

2-1220

- (Negative)

1C

Wine Equalisation   tax Equalisation tax payable

This is the   amount the amount of Wine Equalisation tax that you will need to pay if applicable to   youto you.

2-1370

+ (Positive)

1E

Luxury car tax   payabletax payable

This is to record   the record the Luxury car tax that you will need to pay if applicable to you.

2-1360

+ (Positive)

4

PAYG withholding   payablewithholding payable

This is the total   amount total amount of PAYG that is withheld from employees and subcontractors. This field   also field also includes amounts withheld for No ABN and also No Tax File Number.

2-1370

+ (Positive)

5A

PAYG Instalments

This is the   prepayment the prepayment of PAYG, which is based on total Income and the instalment rate   that rate that is set on your BAS/IAS form, or an instalment amount.

1-1980

+ (Positive)

6A

Fringe Benefits   Tax Benefits Tax Instalments

This is a   prepayment a prepayment of Fringe Benefits Tax based on a projection for the year.

1-1340

+ (Positive)

7

Deferred Company   funds Instalments

This field   relates field relates to those who are liable to pay deferred instalments under the company   or company or fund instalment system.

1-1990

+ (Positive)

N/A

Adjustments and Rounding Account

The BAS requires that whole dollars be reported, so some manual   rounding manual rounding of cents will be required. We suggest that you create an adjustments   and adjustments and rounding account to record the manual rounding of these adjustments.

Expense

or

Income Account

+ (Positive)

or

- (Negative)

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titleRecording a payment to the ATO

Below is an example of entering a payment to the ATO through the Spend Money window (Banking > Spend Money).

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A tax code of N-T is given to the allocation accounts in the example below, but you should always check with your accounting advisor or the ATO for the applicable tax codes to use in your circumstances.

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titleRecording a refund from the ATO

If you receive a refund from the ATO you will need to enter it in through the Banking command centre using the Receive Money function. The allocation accounts will be the same as those for the payment to the ATO. When entering the amounts in the Receive Money window, they should be entered opposite to the table above.

Below is an example of entering a deposit from the ATO in the Receive Money window. 

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