Hiya @BarryCrocker17 ๐
I'm sorry you've had this experience ๐
Let me address your issues in this order:
- Payslips - the Fair Work Ombudsman is the regulator for employment payments and payslips. Your employer is legally obliged to provide you (every worker, no matter that you are casual) with a payslip for each pay, subject to fines. Read the FWO guidance for assistance.
- Income Statements - the ATO requires employers to report salary, tax and super information to the ATO each time they pay you. When the ATO can match a taxpayer identity to the payee identity data your employer sends via Single Touch Payroll, the ATO publish that data as your Income Statement. If the last income statement you can see isn't the latest information for that FY, then perhaps some of your identity details were changed in your employers system and the payee identity data your employer sent no longer enabled the ATO to match it to your taxpayer identity? Or maybe you changed your taxpayer data in ATO's system via ATO Online and it doesn't match the payee identity data your employer's sending? The employer may have kept sending the data but the ATO can't publish it to update the Income Statement. Send an email to your employers' payroll area, requesting they call you so you can confirm that they've sent the STP reports to the ATO and check your TFN, full name, address, date of birth that they're sending. Check that against your ATO Online taxpayer details (my profile > personal details). If the ATO data is incorrect, update it.
- PAYG Withholding - your employer is required to withhold tax from payments subject to withholding and in accordance with the data you gave them on your TFN Declaration. They withhold based upon the tax tables relevant to the frequency of pay cycles. Did you earn enough in the pay to be taxed? There is a threshold value to be reached before tax is withheld, if you have provided a TFN or claimed an exemption from providing one (such as being under 18 years old and earning under the threshold). Your employer will report any tax they withheld (PAYG withholding) in the data they send to the ATO each pay. The ATO then requires your employer to pay it to them. If there is tax on your income statement, the ATO knows and will chase your employer for that money. If there's no tax and your income is such that tax should have been withheld, you will have to pay it in your tax return assessment.
Your employer is legally obliged to get your tax, super and reporting of income details correct, subject to penalty. If they do not action your Income Statement, then report them to the ATO. ๐ค
Sorry for the long response, but it's important that you understand all the parts that have to work for the outcome to be correct ๐
Deanne
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