View Single Touch Payroll reports

1. From the Payroll menu, choose Single Touch Payroll reporting.

2. Click the STP reports tab. Reports are listed with basic information and their status.

3. Click a report to see more details.

You can sync your payroll totals in MYOB with the figures held by the ATO. This is a quick way of ensuring the ATO has the current year to date payroll figures for your employees.

If you're reporting via STP Phase 2, you can send an update event from the STP reporting centre. Otherwise you'll need to record a zero dollar ($0) pay for each employee whose year to date payroll totals you want to send to the ATO.

Am I reporting via STP Phase 2?

You can check in the STP reporting centre (Payroll menu > Single Touch Payroll reporting). How do I get ready for STP Phase 2?

Sending an update event for STP Phase 2

1. From the Payroll menu, choose Single Touch Payroll reporting.

2. Click the STP reports tab.

3. Choose the applicable Payroll year.

4. Click Send update event.

   

5. When prompted, enter your details and click Send.

An update event will be listed with your other payroll submissions on the STP reports tab, but with zero (0.00) amounts.

Sending an update event for STP Phase 1

You can send an update event for an employee by recording a $0 pay. This type of pay is also called a void pay and it's like any other pay, but you'll enter zero for all hours and amounts.

When you record a $0 pay, the employee's latest year to date payroll totals will be sent to the ATO.

1. Start a new pay run (Create menu > Pay run).

2. Ensure the Date of payment is in the payroll year you're sending the update event for.

3. Select only the employees you want to send an update event for.

4. Remove all hours and amounts from each employee's pay, like this example.

   

5. Complete the pay run as you normally do and declare it to the ATO. Need a refresher?

1. Go to the Payroll menu and choose Single Payroll Payroll reporting.

2. Click the STP reports tab.

3. Click the report you want to view.

4. Click View Employee YTD report (PDF). The report downloads and displays in a new browser tab.

What the report shows

The report has 2 parts identified with these headings:

• Payroll reporting - employer pay period - if the report has been accepted by the ATO, this part of the report shows the amounts that have been submitted for the pay period (pay run).

• Payroll reporting - employee year-to-date - this shows the year-to-date amounts submitted to the ATO for each employee that was paid in this pay period (pay run).

If a report you've sent to the ATO is rejected, you can view the ATO's response to find out why.

1. Go to the Payroll menu and choose Single Payroll Reporting.

2. Click the STP reports tab.

3. Click the report you want to view. Details of the ATO's response are displayed.

Learn how to fix rejected reports in Single Touch Payroll.

If you process a pay in the new payroll year (e.g. 1 July or later) but the Date of payment is in the pervious payroll year (e.g. 30 June or earlier), the ATO will treat the pay as an update event. Even if the pay contains amounts that you're reporting to the ATO, they'll consider it an update event (and not a pay event) because it's related to the previous payroll year.

But don't worry, even though the pay run shows as a $0 update event in the STP reporting centre, the updated year-to-date payroll totals (for last payroll year) for the employees in the pay run will still be reported to the ATO.

Your employees' year to date figures are sent to the ATO. This means each time you submit a pay run to the ATO, your employees' latest year to date figures are sent.

Your employees' year to date figures are sent to the ATO. This means each time you submit a pay run to the ATO, your employees' latest year to date figures are sent.

Information submitted from MYOB will be received by the ATO as either a pay event or update event.

• A pay event can only occur in the current payroll year, where both employee and employer year-to-date totals are submitted to the ATO. A regular pay run is considered a pay event.

• An update event can occur in the current or a previous payroll year, and only the employee's year-to-date totals for the applicable payroll year are sent to the ATO. Recording a $0 pay is considered an update event.

You can't delete or "undo" a report from the STP reporting centre. Instead, you can either reverse the incorrect pay and record it again, or wait until the next pay run and adjust it accordingly.

All submitted reports will remain listed in the payroll reporting centre, even if you change or delete a pay in MYOB.