ETP amounts not showing in STP report

Hi All

I fixed the issue I had by myself, although I had to accept to compromise my Payroll Detail Summary a little bit - but nothing unacceptable. If you're interested, and you have a similar issue, here is what I did step by step:

1. Create a new Wage and a new Deduction category for ETPs, but this time, mark them as NOT REPORTABLE. This way, we can use them to adjust the MYOB payroll summary without affecting the STP report.
2. Submit a new pay run for that employee, using the new NOT-REPORTABLE payroll categories. In my case, because MYOB reports were showing the ETPs amounts but the STP was not showing them, I had to do this with negative amounts to adjust my payroll summary. Once the batch is submitted, the STP report for that employee will still show the same amount as before because those categories are not reportable.
3. In my case, we had already paid that employee so I had to locate the payroll journal and make a general journal entry to remove the effect of the pay run (e.g., remove the electronic clearing, remove the wages etc.)
4. Process a new pay run - this time making sure to use the correct ETPs categories (REPORTABLE ones). In my case, this would be same as step 2 above but with positive amounts. Once you put an amount in any of the ETP category, provided you have set up your ETPs correctly, you will see that an EFT Type tab will appear at the bottom of the pay, which allows you to choose which ETP it is (e.g., death, life, etc.) - if you don't get this tab, then it means your ETPs are not set up correctly so do not proceed. Once submitted this pay, then your employee STP report should finally show the correct amounts and pay categories
5. Again, as in step 3, I had to do a journal entry to remove the effect of this pay.
6. Check that all reports make sense - at this stage, your payroll summary report should have the same amount as the end of year STP report. The only compromise is the Register Detail report of that employee - obviously this would show weird amounts in the various affected categories, but the totals would be okay.

IMPORTANT:

1. Make sure you do those two pay runs at step 2 and step 3 in FY24 - otherwise they will be posted in FY25 and you will have to reverse them and re start.
2. Remember that if you touch the ETP TAX manually, in MYOB, using a negative amount in the employee pay means that tax are getting deducted from that pay. For some, it may not be intuitive (I had to adjust as my previous software was showing positive amounts for PAYG)

Eventually my support ticket submitted to MYOB did not get attended to. I just couldn't wait longer for the support team to contact me and maybe waste my time doing something that wouldn't fix anything at all, unfortunately.

I'm sorry MYOB, your software is good and I have no complaints, but there are really a lot of things you should improve.

If I can be of help to any of you facing this issue, please feel free to reply to this and I will try to help

I submitted a ticket to MYOB support yesterday, hopefully they will get back to me soon. The fact is that we also had to process our first pay run for FY25, which means all the pay history for FY24 in the employee's card have gone - which is something that is also frustrating. I am not sure why they disappear. Ideally, we should be able to see these amounts in the employees' card for current and previous FYs

If no solution, I guess I will have no choice but to submit a pay run with correct ETP amounts, and then do a journal entry to remove them from my GL. But it will still make my Payroll Summary not agree to STP YTD report. So frustrating!

Attached is what my accountant done to fix my issue. I had the wrong tax category. Not sure if this is the exact same problems you are all having but it fixed mine and now i match with the STP verification report.

I also have this issue, done a $0 pay for all employees, done an updated event. STP ATO reporting is correct. And when i paid the ETP it was accepted in STP but i noticed that event report only has the tax component in it not the actual ETP. Cannot figure out the issue.

Hi FrancescoB

The usual reason these pay items might not appear is if the ATO reporting category used for ETP Taxable and ETP Tax amounts isn't set correctly. Double-check that these are aligned properly in MYOB. If you've recently changed the ATO reporting category, it's essential to send an update and then check the payroll reports again. You can also check the link here for more info. Hope this helps get things sorted! Let me know if there's anything else you need assistance with.

Best regards,

Doreen