You can no longer register employees in this scheme. 

The final JobMaker period ended on 6 October 2022. Claims for eligible employees employed during this period need to be made before 31 January 2023 with STP reporting for the period due on 28 January 2023.

Learn more on the ATO website.

Terminating a JobMaker employee or updating their details? See the FAQs below for details.

• DO NOT manually create pay items for JobMaker
• Nominate and declare eligible employees via Single Touch Payroll reporting
• Pay eligible employees as normal and claim a credit from the ATO for each JobMaker period
• Credits are $200/week for eligible additional employees aged 16–29, and $100/week for those aged 30–35

Visit the ATO website to check if your business is eligible for JobMaker. If eligible, you'll need to register for JobMaker with the ATO. You only need to register once.

Make sure you register before the due date for the first JobMaker period you're claiming for. See all JobMaker key dates.

You don't need to be registered before you hire eligible employees.

You can only claim JobMaker payments for eligible employees.

According to the ATO, employees are eligible if they:

• are an employee of your business during the JobMaker period
• are aged 16–35 years old when they started employment
• started employment between 7 October 2020 and 7 October 2021
• worked or have been paid for an average of at least 20 hours per week they were employed in the JobMaker period
• have completed a JobMaker Hiring Credit employee notice for the employer
• have not already provided a JobMaker Hiring Credit employee notice to another current employer
• received one of these payments for at least 28 consecutive days (or 2 fortnights) in the 84 days (or 6 fortnights) prior to starting employment
  • JobSeeker Payment
  • Parenting Payment
  • Youth Allowance (except if they were receiving the allowance because they were undertaking full-time study or are a new apprentice).

You need to nominate your eligible employees to let the ATO know they're part of the JobMaker scheme. You'll do this only once for each employee.

To be able to claim JobMaker payments for an employee, nominate them before the due date for their first JobMaker period.

If a nominated employee has completed a minimum average of 20 hours of work per week across a JobMaker period, you can declare this to the ATO each JobMaker period. You can work out an employee's average hours (either worked or paid) by dividing the total hours worked by the number of weeks in the JobMaker period.

To learn more about eligible employees and the minimum hours requirement, visit the ATO website.

Here are the due dates for declaring employee eligibility for each JobMaker period.

To declare an employee's eligibility:

1. In MYOB, go to the Payroll menu and choose Single Touch Payroll Reporting.

2. Click the JobMaker tab.

3. For each eligible employee:
   1. Click the ellipsis and choose Declare for claim period.
      
   2. Click Declare.
      
   3. When prompted to send your payroll information to the ATO, enter your details and click Send.
4. Repeat for each eligible employee you need to declare.

 You'll see the date each employee's declaration was sent.

You can make your JobMaker claims online with the ATO via either:

• ATO online services (through myGov), or
• the Business portal (using myGovID).

Your registered tax or BAS agent can also submit your claim for you.

Here are the dates you can submit your claim for each JobMaker period:

Learn all about the claims process on the ATO website.

To keep track of the JobMaker payments you receive from the ATO, you'll need a new income account. Remember—you'll pay your eligible employees as normal under JobMaker, then you'll claim a credit from the ATO each quarter.

You can set up this account as an "other income" type account (8-xxxx), but you could also set it up as an income account type (4-xxxx). If you're not sure which account type best suits your business, check with an accounting advisor.

1. Go to the Accounting menu and choose Chart of accounts. The Accounts page appears.
2. Click Create account. The Create account page appears.
3. Select Detail account.
4. For the Account type, choose Other income.
5. Enter a 4-digit Account number after the dash which suits your accounts list. For example, 8-5600.
6. For the Account Name enterJOBMAKER CLAIMS RECEIVED, to help you and your employees identify the JobMaker payments.

7. For the Tax code, choose N-T.
   Here's our example:
   

8. Once you're done, click Save.

The JobMaker payments you receive from the ATO will be deposited into your nominated bank account.

How you record these payments depends on whether or not you have a bank feed set up on that account.

<h2><i class="fa fa-comments"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;FAQs</h2><br>

How do I update a nominated employee's details?

If you've nominated an employee for JobMaker but need to change some of their details, change those details in the employee's record (Payroll > Employees > click to open the employee's record and update the required details > Save).

If you've updated the employee's tax file number, date of birth or start date, you'll also need to notify the ATO. You'll do this by recording a zero dollar pay and submitting an updated JobMaker nomination date.

This means the employee isn't eligible for a JobMaker payment for that period. Therefore you wouldn't submit a declaration for them for that period.

First, confirm with the ATO if the employee is eligible to be nominated for JobMaker.

If they are, you'll need to:

1. Change the Start date in the employee's details to 7 October 2020 (Payroll > Employees > click the employee's name > Payroll details tab > change Start date to 07/10/2020 > Save).
2. Change the Start date back to their actual start date, then click Save.
3. Run a zero dollar pay for the employee. This is like a regular pay, but remove all hours and amounts (including leave, super and accruals) so the net pay is $0.00. Finish processing the pay like any other and declare it to the ATO.
4. You can now nominate the employee for JobMaker as described above.

How do I terminate an employee on JobMaker?

Terminating an employee who is on JobMaker is much the same as terminating any other employee, but with one additional task.

First, follow all the steps to process the employee's final payments and notify the ATO of the termination. For all the details see Terminate an employee in Single Touch Payroll reporting.

Then, submit an updated JobMaker nomination date for the employee as shown below.

To submit an updated JobMaker nomination date:

1. Go to the Payroll menu and choose Single Touch Payroll reporting.

2. Click the JobMaker tab.

3. Click the ellipsis for the terminated employee and choose Update employee details.
   
4. If the employee had been re-nominated for JobMaker (after previously being nominated then leaving your business then returning), select this option.
   
5. Click Notify ATO.
6. When prompted to send your payroll information to the ATO, enter your details and click Send.

You'll notice the employee's nomination date has now updated to today's date.

And you're done!

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