Summary

Pay Events are created for EVERY payroll pay sequence you close in your database.

This is because you need to report all payments and changes to your employee's YTD values to the ATO.

This window displays only Pay Events. You can do the same tasks here as the All Submissions tab.

Submission Deadlines

The ATO expect Pay event submissions to be sent on or before pay day.

IMPORTANT: Failing to lodge STP submissions on time can result in an ATO penalty fee. The amount is governed by your company's turnover and the number of days late. The ATO will make contact before issuing a penalty notice.

Reporting Corrections

Data issues found in-house

The process for reporting amendments is going to be dependant on:

• The status of your pay event submission
• Whether the DC file for the related Pay Event has been sent to the bank.
• What type of correction needs to be made, i.e. monetary/non-monetary.

Your options are:

• Fix in the next standard/manual pay
• Rollback pay
• Update Event (conditions apply)

Data issues found by the ATO

Where at least one employee (but not all) is found to have error in the reported data, your Pay Event will display a status of "Successful (with some errors)".

Provided the employee(s) is going to be included the next "regular" pay cycle, you can make and then report corrections in the next standard or manual pay. Otherwise you can fix the data then create an Update Event for the employee(s)

IMPORTANT: If the status was 'Failed' you will need to contact the ATO to advise that you are unable to make a submission for this pay. You will also need to open the STP Manager Tool and click the Cancel button to put this pay event into a permanently errored state.

What data is in a Payroll Event

Payroll events include all employees that were in the related closed pay sequence.

The data reported for each employee is very similar to what was reported in your PAYGW Annual Payment Summaries.

It contains:

Payer identification and contact data:

• Company name
• ABN (and branch if applicable)
• BMS ID
• Contact name
• Postal address (STP v3 is full postal address, STPv4 only post code and country code)
• Electronic contact (Email and/or Business phone)

Payee identification and contact data:

• Name of employee (and their beneficiary in the case of deceased employees)
• Employee code
• TFN (or ABN for contractors on Voluntary Agreements)
• Residential address
• Electronic contact (Email or Work-email and/or Phone)
• Employment dates

Pay period start/end dates

Payer pay period totals

In STP v3 only payer Gross and payer PAYGW are reported.

In STP v4 this is expanded to include Child Support payments

Payee YTD amounts

In STP v3, the YTD amounts are reported per payee payment summary type. All payees have their Gross and PAYGW reported but the calculation of these amounts is dependant on what Payment Summary type they fall into, i.e. Individual Non-Business, Working Holiday Makers, Labour Hire, Voluntary Agreement, Other, ETPs.

In STP v4, the YTD amounts are reported per payee 'Income Type' and the gross payments are disaggregated into many more distinctly identifiable payment groups, i.e. Paid Leave, Bonuses & Commissions, Direct Fees, detailed Allowance types.

Declarer details

Name of person is responsible for declaring the data is correct and the date

For more details refer to the STP Manual