Description
A change has been made to how payees will be reported to the ATO when a balancing payment adjustment pay batch is submitted via Single Touch Payroll (STP).
Previously, payees were only reported when a pay batch was submitted to STP if their reportable year-to-date (YTD) amounts had changed as a result of processing the pay batch. Now, all payees who are included in a balancing payments adjustment pay batch will be reported when the pay batch is submitted to STP regardless of whether their YTD amounts have changed.
This allows you to report corrections to a payee's personal or tax details via STP, if a payee is not expected to be paid again in the current financial year, without having to wait until you finalise the financial year via an STP End of Financial Year (EOFY) submission. For example, the following payee details can be corrected on the relevant Payee record prior to processing the balancing payments adjustment batch:
name, date of birth and address details
payee type (Individual Non Business or Labour Hire)
tax file number
tax status
If a payee is included in a balancing payment adjustment batch and any of the abovementioned details have been updated on their Payee record, the updated details will be reported to the ATO when the balancing payments adjustment pay batch is reported via STP even if the payee's YTD amounts have not changed since the last time they were paid in the current financial year.
For more information, see Making Amendments to Information Reported Through STP.
Benefits
This enhancement allows you to comply with ATO obligations that require an employer to report corrections to a payee's reported STP data in the next pay run or within 14 days of becoming aware of an error.
Configuration
No configuration required.