STP Record not written for Casual Employee, with only Super payments made

Hi there

We have a casual employee who we have paid for the last five fortnights. Her salary is salary packaged in full, therefore no gross income or tax paid for the STP records. The only payment processed for her STP record is the Super Guarantee payment each fortnight. I have only just noticed that there is no record for her in the five STP fortnightly files created and no record in the end of year file created (but not yet submitted to the ATO). A Payment Summary has been generated but all amounts of $0 (because SG payments are not displayed on this).

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Denize

Comments

Kris_Williams

I thought that was how salary sacrifice worked, it basically disappears from gross and gets paid to the super fund on behalf of employee. Should appear as RESC on payment summary though

DMH

Hi Kris. This is salary packaging in a not for profit, for items such as general living expenses or meal and entertainment. It does not have anything to do with super (or RESC). Salary packaging payments reduce gross income and tax, but the employee still receives the employer super guarantee payment, which is not showing.

Bruce

DMH

Sounds to me as though your pays are set up slightly incorrectly. Super Guarantee by definition is based on earnings so I would be setting up a pay run as (assuming wages/allowances before SGC total 400)

salary 400

salary sacrifice deduction - 400

SGC (at 10%) 40

This is give net pay of zero and still record SGC

PS I haven't played around in RAH 2021 yet, but you may have set salary as 400.00001 to avoid have a notional zero salary which prior versions of RAH do not like. (Obviously you can't pay somebody $0.00001 so all reports will round this amount down to zero)

Kris_Williams

Yes there is an option to select super guarantee to calculate on gross, before SS. Yours maybe set to calculate on Net (0.00)

go to Employee, view/edit payroll items, go through windows for Super guarantee item and there is one to calculate on gross or net, click on gross

DMH

Thanks. I have checked this and it is set to calculate on gross. The payslips are reporting the correct amount of super paid each fortnight but Reckon is not generating a STP record showing this, for this employee.

DMH

Thanks Bruce. I followed your thinking on this and completed the following:

I modified the last paycheque to add a few cents as gross wages, which I have written off against sundry. Being less than $1.00, it doesn't show on the payment summary or STP record, but it was enough to generate a STP record for the last payrun, which I uploaded to replace the previous, and also my STP to finalise the year.

All good - thanks!.

Denize

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