How Can I Check Whether My STP Submissions Have Been Attributed to the Correct Financial Year?

Lightning Payroll includes an STP FY Submission Check report that scans your STP history for pays that may have been reported under the wrong financial year. Run this check after end of financial year, or any time you suspect a mismatch between a pay's processed date and the financial year it was submitted under.

Running the Check

1. Open the company you want to check.
2. From the menu bar, go to &Tools >> Check STP EOFY Submissions.
3. The STP FY Submission Check report opens immediately ÔÇö no date filter is required.

Understanding the Report

The report has two sections:

• Possible wrong-year STP records ÔÇö These are STP submissions where the STP FY (the financial year of the STP processed date) does not match the Pay FY (the financial year of the pay's own processed date). The columns shown are Employee, STP FY, Pay FY, STP Processed Date, Pay Processed Date, STP Submission Date, and Final Submission for FY?. A mismatch here means the employee's year-to-date amounts may have been reported under the incorrect year, which can result in duplicate reporting or an employee appearing in a year in which they did not work.
• Pays possibly missed due to early finalisation ÔÇö These are pay records that fall after the date of a final STP submission for that year, and so may never have been reported to the ATO. The columns shown are Employee, Pay Run Date, Pay Processed Date, Current Unattributed FY, Likely Intended FY, Gross, and Tax. A common cause is submitting the end-of-year finalisation from the second-last pay of the year, leaving the final pay unreported.

If no issues are detected, the report displays: No obvious STP financial year date errors have been detected.

How to Fix a Mismatch

The recommended resolution is to correct the processed date on the affected pay run so it falls within the intended financial year, then resubmit the STP event to the ATO.

1. Navigate to the pay run containing the affected pay.
2. On the pay selection screen, click Set Processed/Paid Date For Pay Run to adjust the processed date to the correct financial year.
3. Once the date is corrected, submit a new STP event for that pay run to update the ATO with the corrected figures.

If you are unsure how to correct the dates or the mismatch is complex, contact the Lightning Payroll support team for assistance.