MYOB AE/AO release notes—5.4.37/2020.2 (Australia)
Release date—25 March 2021
2021 Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) return
From April 2021, you can lodge the 2021 FBT tax return. See 2021 Fringe benefits tax return instructions on the ATO website.
ATO Pre-fill
ATO pre-fill is now available in the Distribution of Managed fund (dim) worksheet.
Consolidation of records
Each Income details schedule (INCDTLS) has a maximum number of records allowed. If the number of records exceeds the maximum limit, consolidation is required.
In MYOB tax, we've made this easy for you by automatically consolidating the records where it exceeds the maximum.
The following schedules will now be consolidated as per the ATO's specifications if it exceeds the maximum allowed:
Schedule | Maximum allowed records |
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Dividends received (div) | 50 |
Foreign Income Worksheet (for) | 10 |
Foreign employment income payment summary (fei) | 3 |
When selecting Prelodge in Activity Statement Obligations, shows an error: There is an unexpected error, please check event log for details or contact MYOB support.
- Rounding issue: Foreign pension and annuities schedule (fpa)amounts with cents will now round down to the nearest dollar to avoid return-estimate taxable income discrepancy.
- Company tax return: To calculate PAYG income installments, the tax rates for the base rate entity is updated to 26%. For a non base-rate company, the tax rate is calculated at 30%
Schedule/return | Error code | Fix |
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Australian annuities payment summary (aap) | CMN.ATO.IITR.730054: Australian annuities and superannuation income streams Taxable component Untaxed element amount must be provided | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. |
Deductions schedule (DDCTNS) | CMN.ATO.IITR.730001: Work related car expenses amount is incorrect | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. |
Distributions from partnership (dip) | CMN.ATO.IITR.000283: Other deductions relating to amounts shown is incorrect. CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01: Where there are more than 10 distribution from partnership (dip) records. | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. To fix the CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01 error,
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Distributions from trust (dit) | CMN.ATO.IITR.000283: Other deductions relating to amounts shown is incorrect IITR.730425: Share of credit for tax paid by trustee amount must be provided. CMN.ATO.IITR.730088 - Assessable foreign source income amount is incorrect. | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. Validation test implemented. The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. |
Foreign employment income payment summary (fei) | CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01: The message did not pass XML validation. Please contact your software provider. | Validation test implemented. |
Foreign Income Worksheet (for) | This rejection occurred where there are more than 10 records and there was no consolidation. CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01 Other Foreign Income. | For more than 10 records, it will now be consolidated. You'll no longer get a rejection. |
Foreign pension and annuities (fpa) | IITR.730088: Assessable foreign source income amount is incorrect. | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get a rejection. |
Gross dividends (div) | CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01: Where there are more than 50 gross dividend records | To fix the CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01 error, if there are more than 50 worksheets with amounts, then group the remaining records into the last record. |
Interest income (int) | CMN.ATO.IITR.730378: Country of residence for tax purposes when interest was paid or credited must be provided. | Validation test implemented. |
Salary and wages worksheet (egc) | CMN.ATO.IITR.301106: Salary or wages gross income or work related expense deductions must be provided. CMN.ATO.GEN.XML01 - where there is Exempt foreign employment or Salary or wages lump sum E | Validation test implemented. |
Other income category 1, 2 and 4 (oix) | CMN.ATO.IITR.730430 - Bonuses from life insurance companies and friendly societies amount is incorrect. | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get an error. |
Multi-property rental schedule (RNTLPRPTY) | CMN.ATO.RNTLPRPTY.000211 - Share of capital allowances (depreciation on plant) is incorrect. | The issue is fixed and you'll no longer get an error. |
Other tax return types | ||
2020 Company tax return | CMN.ATO.GEN.500143: Given Name must contain at least one alphabetical character. | Validation test implemented. |
2020 Partnership tax return | CMN.ATO.GEN.XBRL03: A field contains invalid data (such as letters in numeric or date field) | Validation test implemented. |
- Australian government pensions (agp) worksheet: When printing, the third line was printing only 6 characters.
- Multi-property rental property schedule: The amounts at Depreciation on plant and Gardening/lawn mowing expenses will now print on the first row of the description instead of the second row.
- All schedules with ATO prefill values: When printing a worksheet with ATO prefilled data, you can tick Exclude Pre-fill labels in Print attributes to remove the Tax office Report pre-filled data wording.
- Australian superannuation income stream payment summaries (asi): When printing more than one Australian superannuation income stream payment summaries (asi), the Tax offset as per payment summary field will print correctly.
- Business schedule (C): When there's a loss in schedule C and the net primary production income/loss, the L will print correctly.
- Annual GST return: The ATO PDF copy will print the correct dates.
- International Dealings Schedule (IDS): Item 46B Label D will print the correct values.
- Trust return: Is the trust a managed investment trust (MIT)? question on the Front cover will print correctly.
- Multi-property rental schedule (RNTLPRPTY): The private use amount will no longer print 0 incorrectly.
- Label B: total other rental-related income amounts will no longer show 0.00 after the update.
- The Private amount in depreciation on plant label changes will not change to zero when a depreciation worksheet is integrated.
- Performance improvement: Viewing the PLS reports will be quicker when there is a large number of reports in the folder.
- For a non-resident, you can now select the country at Country of residence when interest was paid or credited field in the interest (int) schedule.
- Financial investment income and deductions (fil) schedule will now show the correct amount at Managed investment scheme income from trusts incl. at 13U, Total financial investment income/loss and Net financial investment income/loss
- Client name with a suffix: A client with a suffix such as II, IV, V in their surname will rollover correctly from the previous year.
- Refund of Excess Concessional Contributions 2020: The picklist at Financial year in which the release amount will be included as assessable income field is updated.
- Tax tracking clients: If you use tax tracking for the tax return statuses, in the Update step window the returns with Lodged field is Y rolled over incorrectly as P (paper) instead of E (Electronic) in Return properties.
Custom Account groups and Balance Forward Accounts
When migrating from old Essentials to New Essentials, it will now retain custom account grouping and the balance forward accounts at the Client level.
There are no changes to Document Manager in this release.
This release includes the following hotfix updates:
- The release that corrects the System.OutOfMemoryException error. See AE/AO hotfix 59067576 5.4.36 (Australia and New Zealand)
- Update to the contact sync icons. See AE/AO hotfix 59067593 5.4.36 (Australia and New Zealand).
If you required a bypass code to install 2020.0, you'll get the error message below. Contact support on 1300 840 218. Your installation will not continue.