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Before you can report payroll and super information to the ATO, you need to assign an ATO reporting category to each of your pay items. The ATO reporting category indicates the type of payment you're reporting (is it a gross wage amount or an allowance?).
While it's similar to how pay items were assigned to payment summary fields, there are some important differences. For example, some ATO reporting categories have been renamed and you now need to report superannuation amounts.
Below is a summary of the new ATO reporting categories. To help you assign the right category, we've included a comparison to the previous payment summary reporting fields.
Which ATO reporting category should I assign? We'd love nothing more than to answer this question for you. But every business, award and employee agreement is unique, and so are the names you give to your pay items.
We've provided general information below to guide you on what to assign. If you're still not sure of what's appropriate for your business, talk to your accounting advisor or the ATO. You can also refer to the ATO website for more information.
- From the Payroll menu, choose Pay items.
- Click the ellipses button ( ... ) for the pay item and choose Edit .
- From the ATO reporting category list, choose the appropriate category.
- Click Save.
- Repeat for all pay items.
Learn about the ATO reporting category types
New ATO reporting category | Old Payment Summary field name | More information |
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Gross Payments | Step 3, Assign earnings and deductions
| Include pay items you use for paying salary and wages. This includes items for:
There are more pay items and some exceptions to these. See the ATO website for more information. Note that gross payments are reduced automatically by before-tax deductions such as salary sacrifice superannuation. |
Allowance - Car | Step 3, Assign earnings and deductions
| Certain types of allowances and deductions need to be itemised as they were on Payment Summaries (like the type of allowance). However, for Single touch payroll reporting, each item needs to be grouped and reported using a specific category. Amounts in these payroll categories may be used to prefill your employees' tax returns. Withholding for allowances (ATO website) |
Lump Sum A - Termination | Step 5, Enter other income items
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CDEP Payments | Step 5, Enter other income items
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Exempt Foreign Income | Step 5, Enter other income items
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ETP coming soon. You'll need to report any ETPs using a paper form from the ATO.
New ATO reporting category | Old Payment Summary field name | More information |
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Reportable Employer Super Contributions | Step 3, Assign earnings and deductions
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New ATO reporting category | Old Payment Summary field name | More information |
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Deduction - Work Place Giving | Workplace giving | |
Deduction - Union/Professional Assoc Fees | Union / Professional association fees |
Any other deductions, including salary sacrifice (exempt from FBT) are Not Reportable.
New ATO reporting category | Old Payment Summary field name | More information |
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PAYG Withholding | Step 4, Check assignments are correct Total tax withheld | This is automatically assigned and can't be changed. |