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Pam001's avatar
Pam001
Experienced User
5 years ago

Payroll Centre YTD verification report errors

2 Issues.   1. Individual weekly payroll reports sent to the ATO are correct. The YTD Verification report is not picking up all of the wages. 1 employee shows wages until the end of August. The oth...
  • Tracey_H's avatar
    Tracey_H
    5 years ago

    Hi Pam001 

     

    As explained in the post, AccountRight reports don't match my STP reports, you will need to check the Payroll Activity summary report and Payroll Register summary report. 

     

    The Payroll Activity report gets it's data from payruns processed through Process Payroll. The Payroll Register report gets it's data from the Pay History tab in the employee card. The YTD verification report gets it's figures from the Pay History tab (same as Register) and filters those figures using the ATO reporting categories. 
     
    So when the Activity and Register report match but the YTD verification is different, this indicates the figures are correct in the software but are not being filtered correctly by the YTD verification report. You will need to run the Activity detail report to narrow down which category is causing the issue and then check the ATO reporting category is correct and it hasn't been exempted from PAYG.
     
    Another step is to try processing a $ pay to update the YTD amounts in STP. If you have sent old reports, this will send the YTD amounts from that period, overriding the YTD amounts in the last current report you sent. The ATO use the time stamp of when a report is sent to determine which is the most recent report, not the pay period in the report. So if you send a March report today, the time stamp will be today and the ATO will take that as the current report but the YTD amounts are from March.
     

    With regard to the ATO business portal.. The important thing to check is that your YTD verification report reconciles with your MYOB payroll reports prior to finalising the EOFY. It's the YTD verification report that is sent to the ATO. For peace of mind, you can also confirm that the ATO has the correct YTD amounts by getting your employees to check their myGov accounts.

     

    Please let me know if you need further help.

     

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