100% Salary Sacrifice attracts PAYG tax in Payroll Premier

Legacy KB ID: 4429

Question

Why does Payroll Premier calculate the full amount of PAYG tax on a 100% Salary Sacrifice resulting in a negative pay?  When a part of the salary is sacrificed the PAYG tax is properly adjusted.

Answer

You will encounter this problem when you have the employee’s record:

·         set for an Annual Salary;

·         period salary does not divide into whole dollar and cents – Payroll Premier will calculate to 4 decimal places for dollars;

·         total Salary Sacrifice is not set to 100% but entered as dollars and cents, rounded to the nearest cent for the period gross salary.

The difference between the calculated period salary and the entered period salary rounded to the nearest cent causes Payroll Premier to ignore Salary Sacrifice rules and applies the normal rate of PAYG tax.  As Gross Payment is 0.00, you are left with a negative pay for the total of the PAYG tax applied. 

 

Workaround

Set the Salary Sacrifice amount in the Employee record to 100%.

 

Alternatively, on the Pays Summary>Employee pay, you can re-enter the amount of the Salary Sacrifice and the PAYG tax will be recalculated to zero.

 

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