Summary

A workplace giving enables employees to donate part of their income to nominated charity each payday.

The workplace giving program does not affect the way gross income, super guarantee payments or fringe benefits are worked out.

There is no minimum or maximum contribution required to participate.

Settings

• Deduction Type

  Must be 'D. Standard Deduction

• Taxable

  Must be 'No' even though the donation is tax deductible it is the employee's responsibility not the employer to claim the tax deduction at the end of the year.

• Deduction Class

  Must be "W. Workplace Giving", this setting is used to populate the STP Deduction Items data set

• Tax Deductible

  Must be set according to whether the charity for which the donation is going is eligible to receive tax deductible donations.

  Whilst this information does not currently go via STP. It is still needed for historical reporting and if any customers have or want to build custom reports for helping with their EOFY needs.

  Note The standard workplace giving report (PGPRTAXA041) does not utilise the Tax deductible field but it is a designer report so can be modified to use it if needed. Usually though you would just select the allowances employees would be claiming against.