Preparing Other Leave for Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 - Payroll Web

Other Leave

All leave must be reported separate to Gross in STP Phase 2. In this section you will need to review your existing payroll items to ensure that leave items are not configured as Earnings or Allowances.

If you continue paying leave as an Earnings or Allowance pay item the values will not be reported correctly to the ATO.

If you are tracking leave using Earnings or Allowance pay items, you will need to disable or delete those payroll items and re-create them as leave type item before you switch to STP Phase 2.

Read the ATO guidelines for more information.

Disable or Delete Earnings and Allowance Pay items

This section is a little different to the others as we cannot easily identify which Eraings or Allowance type pay items that you might be using to pay leave.

Therefore, we have displayed all Earning and Allowances in this section for you to check.

You can disable any pay items that are not used in a pay run or assigned to an employee or disable the pay item if they have been used previously.

What you need to do
  1. Select Check earnings and allowances for other leave from the STP Phase 2 Ready Checklist.
  2. Earnings are displayed, with the option to select Allowances
  3. Check each of your pay items and where there is a pay item that is used for paying leave, Disable or Delete
To simplify the process

We have provided similar options to this page, as per the employees page to simplify the process.

  1. A link to the relevant ATO guidelines page
  2. Quick steps on what you need to do
  3. Filter - you can enter an allowance name and search will begin once you enter the first character

  1. Sort - ability to select the column heading to sort the column. This is only available on read only columns

Adding a new Leave Pay item

Once you have determined which Leave pay items are required to be setup, you can access the Pay items page from the Settings link under the WHAT YOU NEED TO DO section.

What you need to do
  1. Click Pay items under Settings on the top navigation menu
  2. Select Create pay item and select Leave
  3. Choose Other under Leave type. The new STP Phase 2 leave sub-type field is available with the additional reporting categories. Whilst preparing for STP Phase 2, this field is optional however it will need have a selection prior to switching to report via STP Phase 2.
  4. Complete the remaining fields and select Create

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Preparing Leave for Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 - Payroll Web

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