Hello all,
Joined up here with it being the weekend before trying to call the ATO during the week. So I work for a government department where I am offered subsidised housing that I salary sacrifice directly from my pay that is now handled in house by the department.
In previous years it was done through a salary packaging company and was listed on my income statement as
“Salary sacrifice type
Other employee benefits”
with the associated amount included in that which directly reduced the gross income reported to the ATO. Since the department took over early last year, this has not been the case. The income reported by them to my income statement is the same gross amount as what I can see on the payment portal through my department.
I contacted payroll about this as their own FAQ says that any amount that’s salary sacrificed will be reported to the ATO as just a reduction in the gross salary amount which isn’t the case. They basically dismissed me saying it’s an issue with the ATO and I have to sort it out with them where I believe it’s an issue with the way the department is declaring this income.
So at the moment I’m staring down having to pay tax on approx $7k of extra income that should have been salary sacrificed (and has been by the department but apparently not with the ATO).
Can anyone give me some guidance on this whether this is an ATO issue or should I basically try and rip the department’s payroll a new one for trying to dismiss me when it’s (IMHO) an issue that they have caused as they’re the ones inputting the figured with STP?
Hopefully this all makes sense and isn’t too much to figure out, I did try and make it brief…
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