How to Report a Missed STP Pay Event

Question

Hi,

I was reviewing the list of STP submissions in the business' ATO online portal against the payroll list in Hosted and noticed ATO's STP list was missing a pay event in mid November. I would have thought that uploading successive pay events would have included this data but it seems not to.

To rectify do I go to the (missing) pay event in Hosted and export this as a 'New Pay Event' or an 'Update Pay Event'? Or do I go to the most recent pay event and do a 'Update Pay Event' or 'Full File Replacement'?

And secondly, when I get into the GovConnect portal do I select 'Full File Replacement' or 'Finalise Year' ?

Many thanks in advance, Lee

Acctd4 · Answer

Hi @NarellePaterson

Unlike Reckon’s portal, the ATO prefill for W1/W2 is NOT live/in real time & only updates intermittently.  It also only picks up original submissions, not Updates.

Therefore those pre-fill amounts are sometimes inaccurate which is why it has a note there to check your payroll records & just manually amend the pre-fill amounts if necessary 😊

NarellePaterson · Answer

So i have done the same thing . I missed a payroll submission and have since lodged subsequent payrolls and my accountant said thast that should update the YTD figures but I just went to submit and pay IAS and the prefilled figures do not match my Reckon payroll summary report it is out by the missed week. So how do I fix this, the ATO seems to say I need to submit missed payroll run is that correct. If so do I submit as New event?

Acctd4 · Answer

It doesn't matter though because your subsequent submissions - updating YTD balances - will have incorporated this anyway.

Check the YTD balances of your latest submission match with your payroll.  You can see my instructions on how to create reports for checking here:

https://community.reckon.com/discussion/comment/20642229#Comment_20642229?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=YTD