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4 July 2023

An employee is salary sacrificing $9000 of their gross income (made up of taxable salary and allowances). Some allowances are reported as Allowance 6 and reported from there. His gross amount has reported a negative due to the salary packaging as it the allowances are not being included.


Gross salary and allowances reported as gross - $8932.10

Taxable allowances reported as Allowance 6 - $829.08

Total - $9761.18

Salary packaging of $9000 for super + $105.50 for remote rent = $9105.50


Amount reported for STP -

Gross - $ -173.40

Other Allowances - $829.08


The negative gross has returned as a warning on our STP Payload. Can you please advise if this is the correct way to report this to the ATO and if there are any problems with allowing the negative gross to continue as the employee has enough funds to cover with those allowances reported as Allowance 6.


Thanks

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PayrollDeanne(Taxicorn)Taxicorn
10 July 2023

@question2021, the gross is incorrectly negative because you've assigned all of the sacrificed amount against Gross, when the sacrifice clearly includes allowances. Transfer the negative in Gross to Allowances. All good. @AriATO, this is a very typical, long-standing issue with both Payment Summaries and STP. DoG fixed it for STP2.


Deanne


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AriATO(Community Support)Community Support
7 July 2023

Hi @question2021


Can you tell us what allowance 6 is? Is that one of the categories for your software? In your STP report your salary sacrifice amounts should appear as positive amounts. You may have to check your allowances are reported properly. Is it possible to check with your provider?

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PayrollDeanne(Taxicorn)Taxicorn
10 July 2023

@question2021, the gross is incorrectly negative because you've assigned all of the sacrificed amount against Gross, when the sacrifice clearly includes allowances. Transfer the negative in Gross to Allowances. All good. @AriATO, this is a very typical, long-standing issue with both Payment Summaries and STP. DoG fixed it for STP2.


Deanne


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