Can you give employees a payment summary and still lodge thru stp

Leanne_7663246

Hi, can anyone help.  I have read thru the stp info on the ato website but am still confused.  We have reported thru stp for the whole of the 2018/2019 financial year.  Can I give employees a payment summary as well this year or do I have to only use stp and they get their information thru my gov. I am worried a lot of employees wont have my gov and we have some employees who were students and have now left to go home to their country so they wont have my gov.

Zappy

Of course you can. Who said you can't? The point is to give the employee the choice. If I don't use an agent and if I won't use mygov I still need to lodge a tax return or risk getting a default assessment from ATO. In the future though you may not have the option of paper returns. Old people are going to struggle.

Leanne_7663246

Thanks Kevin. I didn't find anywhere that said you cant do it but I didn't find anywhere that said you can so I wanted to make sure I wasnt doing anything wrong by giving employees a payment summary too.  Just covering all bases. I know it is going to be very hard for older people who dont understand my gov, online reporting etc.

Zappy

I agree Leanne. My mum is in her nineties and positively refuses to use internet banking. I keep telling her she may not have a choice for much longer.