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Transition Issues & Errors for STP 2

Owned by Jessie Du
Last updated: Jan 18, 2023
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There are some common reporting issues and errors that can affect your ability to submit your Single Touch Payroll (STP) report correctly and/or affect your employees' year-to-date (YTD) information in myGov. This page provides general guidance on the following STP issues and errors:

  1. New Allowance Error

The ATO will only accept the new allowance categories on STP jobs from customers who are reporting STPv2.

Car

Cents per kilometre vehicle costs ( CD )

Transport

Award transport payments ( AD )

Laundry

Laundry ( LD )

Meals

Overtime Meal Allowances ( MD )

Travel

Domestic or Overseas Travel Allowances and Overseas Accommodation Allowances ( RD )

Tool (new)

Tool allowance ( TD )

Task (new)

Tasks ( KN )

Qualification (new)

Qualifications/Certificates ( QN )

Other

Other allowances ( OD )

If any of the 3 new allowance categories introduced as part of STPv2 is reported through data cleansing and the STP 2 is not enabled, the STP job will fail to generate.

Please delay data cleansing and transitioning onto the 3 new allowance categories post enablement of STP 2.

2. STP Income Country Code Error

The ATO will only accept STP Income Country code for the 3 STP Income Stream types from customers who are reporting STPv2.

  • Foreign employment income (FEI)

  • Inbound assignees to Australia (IAA)

  • Working holiday maker (WHM)

If any of the 3 STP Income Stream types introduced as part of STPv2 is reported through data cleansing and the STP 2 is not enabled, the STP job will fail to generate.

3. Employment Basis

The ATO may only accept some newly introduced employment basis on STP jobs from customers who are reporting STPv2.

  • Full time

  • Part time

  • Casual

  • Labour Hire ( New )

  • Voluntary agreement ( New )

  • Death beneficiary ( New )

  • Non-employee ( New )

If any of the new employment basis is introduced as part of STPv2 is reported through data cleansing and the STP 2 is not enabled, the STP job will likely fail to generate.

4. General Ledger review

If clients are updating component attributes they may need to review the components which have been updated as changes to a component set up may lead to components being declassified from GL set up.

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