AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia only

From 1 January 2017, a new tax was introduced for working holiday makers who are in Australia on a 417 or 462 visa. This is sometimes referred to as the 'backpacker tax'.

If you’ve registered with the ATO to employ working holiday makers, AccountRight 2017.1 and later has tax tables you can assign to these workers. Learn how to get the latest version.

To assign the new tax tables to working holiday makers:

1. Load the new tax tables: In AccountRight, go to the Setup menu and choose Load Tax Tables.
2. Assign the new tax tables: Open the card of the employee who is a working holiday maker. Go to the Card File menu > Cards List > Employee tab, select the employee and go to the Payroll Details tab. Select the Working Holiday Maker tax table, or if no tax file number has been provided by the employee, select No Tax File Number Working Holiday Maker.

Assigning one of these new tax tables ensures:

• the correct tax is withheld from the employee’s pay, and
• the Gross Wages field on their payment summary will show the H income code.

Here's Oi Yee, one of our AccountRight experts, explaining the ins and outs of this new tax.

  Working holiday maker FAQs