Hi,
I was employed by an organisation as a casual (my second job at the time), I now also work full time for this organisation. I have two payroll IDs and different employment contracts as they fall under seperate legislation.
Prior to taking on the full time role, I wasn’t claiming the tax-free threshold on my causal employment. Now that I have two roles I wish to claim tax-free on full time role and leave causal as not. I have been told by payroll that this is not possible, I have to claim tax-free or not.
The casual role pays monthly and the full time role fortnightly. Once a month both pays fall within the same pay run. I was under the assumption that each roles pay would be taxed individually. However, I am being taxed as if both incomes are from the one role; this is happening on both fortnight pays as the monthly pay is already loaded into the system (casual role is backpay of the previous months work).
Because the causal role fluctuates greatly due to its on-call nature, my fortnightly pay is constantly different in the net pay amounts. Is this correct?
I only ask because if the roles are taxed individually I am paying significantly less tax even with the tax-free and non tax-free aspect (used ATO tax withholding calculator to work this out) than if they were combined during pay run. I also don’t like the uncertainty of my fortnightly pay fluctuating so much. Whilst I understand both pays are coming from the same employer, I assumed the pays themself would be kept seperate due to their rates and legislations.
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