News, events and resources

Resources to help you understand Single Touch Payroll (STP), such as employer guides, factsheets, and webinars.

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STP employer reporting guidelines
STP Phase 2 reporting help
Other STP factsheets
Webinars
Other digital resources
Media releases

STP employer reporting guidelines

These guidelines aim to help you understand what you are required to report through your STP-enabled software. This will depend on whether your digital service provider has transitioned to STP Phase 2 reporting.

STP Phase 2 reporting help

We have a number of resources to help with transitioning to STP Phase 2 reporting.

Factsheet and checklists

Expanding Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2). This information is also available as a PDF – see Expanding Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2) factsheet (PDF, 231KB)This link will download a file.
Employer STP Phase 2 Checklist. This information is also available as a PDF – see Employer STP Phase 2 checklist (PDF, 232KB)This link will download a file.
Tax and BAS professional STP Phase 2 checklist. This information is also available as a PDF – see Tax and BAS professional STP Phase 2 checklist (PDF, 230KB)This link will download a file.

Questions and mistakes

We've published web content addressing common STP Phase 2 reporting questions and mistakes.

We've also produced a series of short videos about the questions and mistakes we're seeing:

Other STP Factsheets

We've produced the following summary factsheet about STP reporting more broadly: Single Touch Payroll – get ready checklist.

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Webinars

We have held a number of webinars to help support employers transitioning to STP and to start reporting.

It's important to refer to our website for the latest and most accurate information.

The following recordings are helpful resources but may include dated information.
Webinar topic recordings	Date recorded	Description	Audience
The Single Touch Payroll Expansion (Phase 2)	25 November 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: 0:00 – introduction 3:27 – all-purpose rates and allowances 6:27 – annualised salaries 9:53 – other allowances 14:23 – TFN declarations 16:41 – 100% salary sacrifice 19:42 – paid parental leave 21:51 – mid-year transition to STP Phase 2 32:54 – next steps.	Employers and tax professionals
The Single Touch Payroll expansion (Phase 2)	18 November 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: 0:00 – introduction 5:34 – salary sacrifice 25:24 – other parts of pay, including reportable employer superannuation contributions and reportable fringe benefits amounts 31:35 – reporting deductions 33:45 – discussion with Services Australia on voluntary Child Support reporting 1:00:50 – next steps.	Employers and tax professionals
The Single Touch Payroll expansion (Phase 2)	22 October 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: 0:00 – introduction 5:40 – discussion with the Fair Work Ombudsman 15:02 – disaggregation of gross part 2 15:02 – paid leave 38:03 – allowances 1:04:17 – annualised salaries and all-purpose allowances 1:14:40 – next steps.	Employers and tax professionals
The Single Touch Payroll expansion (Phase 2)	7 October 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: 0:00 – introduction 5:41 – employment conditions 9:40 – tax treatments 24:05 – income types and country codes 41:03 – disaggregation of gross part 1 59:14 – lump sums and terminations 1:06:15 – reporting tax withheld 1:18:00 - key messages.	Employers and tax professionals
The Single Touch Payroll expansion (Phase 2)	22 September 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: 0:00 – introduction 3:20 – our journey so far 14:08 – what isn't changing 21:59 – a message from Services Australia 37:49 – the employer reporting guidelines 49:34 – engagement, communications and support 58:32 – panel discussion	Employers and tax professionals
Closely held payees and Single Touch Payroll	2 June 2021	Changes to Single Touch Payroll reporting obligations for closely held payees from 1 July 2021, including: what a closely held payee is some common business practices relating to closely held payees options for reporting closely held payees via STP.	Employers and tax professionals
The Single Touch Payroll expansion (Phase 2)	29 March 2021	Information on Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2), including: what is Single Touch Payroll (Phase 2) is what the changes will mean for you what you can do to get ready.	Employers and tax professionals
End of financial year processing through Single Touch Payroll	14 February 2019	Information on how to process your end of year data correctly, including: finalising data amendments after finalisation overpayments relating to previous financial years what to tell your employees.	Large employers and multinationals

Other digital resources

Media: STP expansion (STP phase 2)
http://tv.ato.gov.au/ato-tv/media?v=bi9or7od8o74p1External Link (Duration: 00:59)

Browse atoTV to find other helpful videos and podcasts about STP, including:

Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 Tax inVoice podcast episode discussing the benefits of STP Phase 2 for employers and employees, the changes, key dates, what employers can do to prepare and the support we have available - 9 November 2021.
Single Touch Payroll Tax inVoice podcast episode discussing why STP was introduced, how to comply with the reporting requirements, and what to do if you haven't started reporting – 22 November 2019.

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Media releases

24 June 2022 – Time to switch to Single Touch Payroll Phase 2
13 February 2019 – Statement from Commissioner Chris Jordan about transition to Single Touch Payroll for small employers
11 October 2018 – ATO encourages employers to update to real-time payroll reporting

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