AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia only AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia onlyYou must be reporting to the ATO via STP Phase 2 If you haven't already, you need to move to STP Phase 2 to stay compliant with the ATO. But we have you covered – see how easy it is to move. |
Single Touch Payroll (STP) is an ATO initiative to streamline payroll reporting. You’ll be able to report payroll and super information directly to the ATO when you process a pay run in AccountRight (from either online or desktop company files). As a result of this change, you may no longer need to complete payment summaries at the end of the financial year as your employees' payroll information will be available to them through the government's online service, myGov. UI Text Box |
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| Payment summaries still required for 2017/2018 payroll year. Even if you've reported payroll information to the ATO via Single Touch Payroll prior to 1 July 2018, you'll still need to prepare payment summaries for the 2017/2018 payroll year. | Take a look at this quick overviewa simple way to report your employees’ payroll information to the ATO and keep your business compliant. If you’ve subscribed to MYOB AccountRight, you can start STP reporting now — there are no additional charges. Once you're set up, you'll send your employees' salary, tax and super info to the ATO after each pay. At the end of the financial year you'll do a quick finalisation to let the ATO know you've finished paying your employees for the year. Your employees can access their payroll information through the ATO's online service, MyGov, which also simplifies their annual tax returns. HTML |
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Do I need to report my payrollvia STP? The ATO required you to do a headcount of total employees on 1 April 2018. This is a headcount – not the full time equivalent (FTE) number. The ATO website explains more about this headcount. If you had 20 or more employees on 1 April 2018 you need set up and start reporting using Single Touch Payroll. If not, you don’t need to use STP reporting now, it's only optional. How do I report payroll in AccountRight?AccountRight 2018.2 (and later) can report your payroll and superannuation amounts to the ATO, directly from AccountRight. Before you can report, you need to: - Check that your company information and employee details meet ATO requirements,
- Assign an ATO category to all your payroll categories.
- Connect your MYOB software to the ATO.
Once connected, your payroll information is automatically sent to the ATO when you process payroll in AccountRight. Want to learn more about Single Touch Payroll?The ATO website has lots of great info - see Single Touch Payroll. If If you pay employees, you need to report to the ATO via STP. See the ATO website about starting to report STP. STP Phase 1 and Phase 2The ATO first introduced STP in July 2018. In January 2022 they expanded STP to include some additional information in your STP reporting. They called this expansion STP Phase 2. Learn more on the ATO website. If you set up STP any time after mid-December 2021, you'll be set up for STP Phase 2. Otherwise you can easily move from STP Phase 1 to STP Phase 2. Setting up STPYou'll be guided through the setup process to make sure your payroll details meet the ATO's requirements. You'll then set up a connection to the ATO. For all the details, see Setting up Single Touch Payroll reporting. Also find out What happens after I've set up Single Touch Payroll? Learn more about STPVisit the ATO website for lots of great info for businesses about Single Touch Payroll. Or if your employees want to know more, the ATO website has them covered too - , see Single Touch Payroll for employees. Need some training?Learn from an expert at an Single Touch Payroll training course, or complete our free e-learning course. Visit MYOB Academy to learn more. Image Removed |