STP Overview

Single Touch Payroll (STP) is a government initiative to streamline business reporting obligations. This STP overview article will list all available STP support articles for your reference.

Introduction to STP:

• Single Touch Payroll (STP) Guide
• STP Registration Wizard
• Enabling ATO Integration for Single-Touch Payroll
• Preparing for the new Phase two reporting requirements

Business-level settings:

• ATO Settings
• Pay categories and deduction categories
• Configuring "Other" allowances for STP reporting
• How to manage STP reporting if your ABN changes

Employee-level settings:

• Income types
• Employment basis
• Tax treatment

Transitioning STP Reporting (moving to this payroll platform from a previous platform) :

• Transition options available with STP reporting
• Protocols regarding changing your BMS ID for STP reporting

Reporting via STP:

• Single Touch Payroll page
• Creating and Lodging a Pay Event
• Creating and Lodging an Update Event
• Managing closely-held employees up to 30th June 2021
• Managing closely-held employees from 1st July 2021
• Closely held employees: reporting STP on a quarterly basis
• STP Reporting for Micro Employers
• Adding Reportable Fringe Benefits if an employee is not in the STP event

Trouble-shooting:

• Resolving Common STP Lodgement Issues
• Validation Warnings in STP Events
• Managing failed or partially successful STP events
• RESC payments - fixing incorrectly allocated payments via a pay event
• Lodging an STP earnings reset event to fix incorrectly reported business/employee settings
• Retrospectively changing an employee's employing entity during the financial year and the interaction with STP

EOFY:

• End of Financial Year Guide 2021/2022 - Reporting STP
• End of Year Reconciliation - Single Touch Payroll
• STP: Processing finalisation events using the EOFY Wizard
• Creating and lodging an amended finalisation event
• STP: Processing a finalisation declaration via an update event
• End of Financial Year 2020/2021: Frequently asked questions when processing via STP

STP Brand/Partner functions:

• Managing SBR software IDs at a Brand and/or Partner level
• Analysing STP data/events lodged via Lodgement Messages