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

Last updated 20 July 2022

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

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)
https://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:

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Media releases

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