How To Set Up Single Touch Payroll

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Single Bear upon Payroll (STP) is a uncomplicated way to written report your employees' payroll data to the ATO and keep your business compliant. Larn more about STP on the ATO website.

Setting up doesn't take long and tin be done by whoever does the payroll for your business. If a tax or BAS amanuensis looks after your payroll, they'll demand to complete the steps below to ready STP on your behalf.

If you pay employees using more than one AccountRight company file, yous'll need to set up STP in each file.

What to expect

When you set up STP, here'due south what'll happen:

1. Yous'll showtime the process in AccountRight and complete the setup in a web browser version of AccountRight.
2. Your concern and payroll details will be checked to make sure they meet the ATO'southward requirements. What details are checked?
3. You lot'll then notify the ATO that y'all're using MYOB to transport your payroll information.
4. You lot can so add other people who process your payroll so they can besides send payroll information to the ATO.

OK, let'southward beginning by checking your payroll details.

To check your payroll details

1. In your online company file, go to the Payroll command centre and click Payroll Reporting.
2. Click Become started. You'll exist prompted to set up STP in a web browser. If your company file isn't online, you'll need to put it online to set STP.
3. Click Go to browser.
4. If prompted to sign in to your MYOB account:
   1. Sign in using your MYOB account details (e-mail address and password).
   2. Go to the Payroll menu > Single Touch Payroll reporting.
5. Click Go started to check your payroll details for whatsoever issues.
   
6. If no problems are institute, you're ready to Notify the ATO you're using MYOB for Single Touch Payroll reporting.
7. If whatsoever issues are found, clickView errors to see the details on theSingle Touch Payroll setup errors page.

8. Fix all the issues listed under Business details, Employee data and ATO reporting categories.

   To fix...	Practice this...
   Business details	Click Edit business organization details. Make the required changes. Click Salvage. Learn more well-nigh your Business settings when using your AccountRight file in a browser.
   Employee information	Click the employee's name. Make the required changes. Click Salvage. Learn more virtually Updating an employee's details when using your AccountRight file in a browser.
   ATO reporting categories	Click the payroll category/pay item proper noun. Choose the applicable ATO reporting category. Click Save. Learn about assigning ATO reporting categories for Single Touch Payroll when using your AccountRight file in a browser.

9. To run the check again, either clickRefresh on theSingle Bear on Payroll setup errors page, or echo the higher up steps.

10. When no more issues are found, click Get started.
    

11. You tin at present continue setting upwards STP by notifying the ATO for Single Touch Payroll reporting.

  FAQs

Why does my file need to be online?

Why does my file need to exist online?

You'll complete the STP setup process online (via a web browser) which is only possible if your company file is online.

If your visitor file is offline (saved on your estimator or a network server), you'll need to put your company file online to gear up STP.

Need more fourth dimension?

To give you lot plenty of time to move your file online and ready up STP, we've obtained a deferral from the ATO.

This means you have until 1 January 2023 to set upward STP and start reporting your payroll information to the ATO.

What payroll details are checked during STP setup?

What payroll details are checked during STP setup?

When you set up STP, the following details are checked to make certain they meet the STP requirements.

	What gets checked
Company information	Company Name ABN ABN Branch (if yous accept one) what is this? Street Address Suburb/Town/City State Postcode Name (of contact person) Phone (of contact person) You lot can access this information in AccountRight via Payroll > Payroll Reporting > Company Information.
Employee details	All employees paid in the current and the previous payroll year are included in the payroll check. Employees made inactive or terminated in the current payroll year will also be checked. Hither is the data that's required in your employee cards (accessed via Card File > Cards Listing > Employee tab > click an employee). On the Profile tab: Last Proper name First Name Address Suburb/City Country (y'all need to select a state from the list and non blazon it. If you take boosted addresses (Address 2, etc.) ensure complete details are entered here too) Postcode On the Payroll Details tab > Personal Details section: Date of Birth Starting time Appointment Employment Basis On the Payroll Details tab > Taxes section: Tax File Number Income Blazon Practise y'all utilize working holiday makers? If you cull Working holiday maker as the Income Blazon, you'll besides demand to cull the worker'due south Country of origin. Also check that the correct Tax Table is assigned to working holiday makers based on your concern's working vacation maker registration status.
Payroll categories	Wage, deduction, and superannuation payroll categories used in the electric current and the previous payroll twelvemonth are included in the check. You tin access your payroll categories in AccountRight via Payroll > Payroll Categories. Each of these must accept an ATO reporting category assigned. By default, this is set to To exist assigned, so you know what payroll categories still need assigning. How to assign ATO reporting categories

What if an employee doesn't have a Tax file number?

What if an employee doesn't take a Revenue enhancement file number?

If you don't have an employee's Tax file number (TFN), use the applicable number from these provided by the ATO. If you need more than information or you're not sure what to cull, bank check with the ATO.

Employ this TFN	For this scenario
111 111 111	New payee has not made a TFN Declaration, but 28 days take not passed.
333 333 333	Payee is nether 18 years of age and earnings don't exceed $350 per week, $700 per fortnight, or $1,517 per month.
444 444 444	Payee is an Australian Government pensioner payee.
000 000 000	Payee chooses not to quote a TFN and has not claimed an exemption from quoting a TFN or does not fit into whatever of the above categories.

What is my BMS ID and where practise I find information technology?

What is my BMS ID and where practise I notice it?

Each payroll software is identified using a Business Management Software (BMS) ID. When you fix up STP, the ATO are notified of your BMS ID.

If your business has previously reported via STP in the electric current payroll year using another MYOB or non-MYOB payroll software, when you set up STP in MYOB yous must notify the ATO of the BMS ID of your previous software. Otherwise your employees' year-to-date (YTD) payroll information will be reported twice to the ATO, and no-i wants that...

Transferring your BMS ID lets the ATO know you've inverse payroll software, and moves your employee's year-to-date payroll amounts nether your new BMS ID at the ATO finish. If y'all haven't already, make sure y'all've entered your employee's pay history for the current payroll year into AccountRight.

To find your previous BMS ID

Yous or your tax/BAS agent can discover your previous BMS ID via the ATO's online services.

1. Log into the ATO'southward online services.
2. Go to Employees > STP reporting (agents become to Business organisation > STP reporting).
3. Click the dropdown arrow side by side to one of your STP reports.
4. Copy the Business Direction software (BMS) ID and so you tin paste information technology into the Previous software BMS ID field in MYOB when prompted (see above).

Source: https://help.myob.com/wiki/display/ar/Setting+up+Single+Touch+Payroll+reporting

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