Backpacker for part of the financial year
Hi there,
I am looking into the setup for a Working Holiday Maker in Reckon. I came across the following post:
https://help.reckon.com/article/o7du195a39-kba-5510-backpacker-tax-rate-in-rab
Is this still the way reckon recommends dealing with both the tax rate for a backpacker / Working Holiday Maker and also how to deal with them changing to an Australian Resident part way through the year? ie. terminating and creating a new employee card?
Thanks, Rosie
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Hi Rosie
This guide was created to deal with the legislation change for WHM when it occurred back in 2017, pre-STP.
Personally, I would not be creating a new Employee record in your situation (in order to retain the existing Employee Number) Instead I would update the existing record now to the Australian Resident applicable tax code & utilise the Notes section to add date-stamped notes on it.
Shaz Hughes Dip(Fin) ACQ NSW, MICB
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Hi Shaz,
Thankyou for your reply. Last year I had been told by the ATO that I needed to submit two payment Summaries for the employee so that the portion of wages earned whilst they were a Working Holiday Maker was shown differently on the payment summary to the wages earned when they were deemed an Australian Resident for tax purposes. Is that no longer the case due to STP? If so, that's fantastic!
Also, in regards to WHM's, do you know of any work around to manually entering the tax rate, monitoring their earnings, and then increasing the rate once they hit 45%?
Thanks for your help,
Rosie
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Actually, it's just dawned on me ... the Income Statement (aka Payment Summary) has to be allocated a specific income code for WHM ("H") that needs to be included in the employee's tax return. So - whilst I'm not a fan of the effect in the payroll records - you will need to set up a separate employee record if the WHM's status has changed to Aus Resident after all! 😒
Unfortunately, there's not currently a workaround to automate the WHM rate increase once the earnings threshold is reached. I'd recommend using a (Modified) Payroll Summary report set to This Financial Year to Date to routinely check. If you have more than one WHM, you could modify this report to include all of them & set it to Display Columns by Employee, then Memorise it & generate it after each pay run to keep check.
Shaz Hughes Dip(Fin) ACQ NSW, MICB
*** Reckon Accredited Partner (AP) Bookkeeper - specialising EXCLUSIVELY in Reckon Accounts / Hosted ! ***
* Regd BAS Agent (No: 92314 015)* ICB-Certified Bookkeeper* Snr Seasonal Tax Consultant since 2003 *
Accounted 4 Bookkeeping Services
Ballajura, WA
(NB: Please give my post a Like or mark as Accepted Answer if I have been able to resolve your query as this helps others when seeking solutions!)
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