Single Touch Payroll Submission

This screen enables you to approve and declare the Single Touch Payroll (STP) Reporting Data and submit it to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Likewise, this screen allows you to review your STP submission status.

Prerequisites

• STP File generated during the Update Payrun
• *PP_STPSTATUS

Rules and Guidelines

• In processing Single Touch Payroll, you run your pay as normal. STP-related information is automatically generated during the Update Payrun step.

  You may review the data via the Single Touch Payroll Report and Single Touch Payroll Exceptions Report produced via the Update Payrun.

  Once reviewed and checked that the data is correct, you can then go to the Single Touch Payroll Submission screen, search for the payrun you created the file/s for, and send the data to the ATO by clicking the Send to ATO button. You will be required to approve and declare the submission (i.e. on the pop-up that will display once the button is clicked). Each ABN/ Company within a Payrun Group will have its own STP File that will require submission.

• The layout of this screen varies depending on the status of the file you are currently viewing:
  Submission Status

  Value	Description
  G	Data Generated - The STP information is generated.
  D	Ready for Download - The STP Gateway is not required. User will download the file instead.
  3	Signed and Downloaded - Third-Party Gateway is selected and the declaration has been signed.
  R	Ready to Submit to ATO - The User has acknowledged that data is correct.
  S	Submitted to ATO - The STP file is delivered to ATO.
  X	Submission Failed - The XML could not be sent to the ATO. Preceda will intervene.
  F	Finalised/ Processed Without Issue - The ATO has received the file and responded with Success.
  E	Error/ Processed With Issue - The ATO has responded with Error.

   

• It may be the case that once you click on the Send to ATO button (i.e. for Status 'G' Data Generated), it may not immediately be received by the ATO. Once the file has been received by the ATO, the Data Generated status 'G' will become 'S' Submitted to ATO.

• The ATO will then process the data in one to five days, and may identify issues in the data. Any issues encountered by the ATO will be available on this screen's Issues reported by ATO section (i.e. available for Status 'E' Processed with Issues), and can be corrected in time for the next payrun.

  You may download the errors in CSV by clicking the CSV file button.

• If you want to "Single Touch" the process, you may add the Task ID STP Declaration and File Submission to the One Step Payrun Template. Doing so enables the parameters on the One Step Process Payrun for the automatic processing of Single Touch Payroll so that every ABN/ Company within the Payrun Group will be approved,declared, and submitted.

Screen Details

Payrun Details

This displays the Payrun Environment and Payrun Group being processed for STP as well as the payment date and pay period end date.

Employer Details

This displays details of the employer such as the business name, Australian Business Number (ABN), number of employees included in the STP Report as well as the gross and tax being withheld by the employer.

Submission Summary

This section gives you an overview on the status of submission to the ATO. Likewise, it provides details such as submission ID and the date when data is declared and submitted.

Issues reported by the ATO

This section is only displayed when the file has a status of 'E' Processed with Issues. This provides you the total count of errors and an overview on the employees and error messages encountered during the submission.

A CSV File button is available should you need to extract and download the errors in CSV format.

Buttons

Review STP File/ Signed File

Review STP File

This button is available when the Submission Status is in G (Data Generated) or D (Ready for Download). Clicking this button downloads the Single Touch Payroll File.

Signed File

This button is available in any Submission Status other than G or D (e.g. 'R' Ready to Submit to ATO or 'E' Processed with Issues). Clicking this button downloads the Signed XML File.

Send to ATO/ Sign and Download

Send to ATO

Click this button to approve, declare, and submit the selected file/s to the ATO.

This button is only available for Status G (Data Generated). Once clicked, a declaration window will pop up for you to declare and authorise the file/s to send to the ATO.

Once the file has been received by the ATO, the Data Generated status G will become S (Submitted to ATO).

Sign and Download

This button is only available when the Submission Status is in D (Ready for Download). This means that the STP Gateway is not required, and the user will download the file instead.

Selecting a Third-Party Gateway on the Single Touch Payroll Configuration screen then clicking this button, you will be prompted with a declaration pop-up window. Signing the declaration changes the D Status to 3 (Signed and Downloaded).

ATO Response File

Click this button to download the ATO response file.

This button is only available for Status E (Process with Issues).

CSV File

Clicking this button will extract all issues displayed on the screen into a CSV file.

This button will only appear when the Status is E (Processed with Issues).

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