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Note: this method only works for users who have submitted STP for at least one event throughout the financial year being reported.
Before You Begin
For online/mobile users, you will need to register your SSID. For desktop users, you will require a valid ATO Machine Credential.
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Submit STP as usual, by clicking Yes on the prompt when completing your pay run, or by clicking Single Touch >> Submit Payroll To ATO from the last pay run with a processed date in June in the Pays screen.
The only difference when submitting the last pay of the financial year is to tick the box that says Final pay for the financial year?.
On the next page you can select your credential (for desktop users), then print, preview and submit as normal.
If submitting a New event finalisation only, you may find that employees not included in the final pay run are missing. This is normal. For the final pay run of a financial year only, we recommend you send STP a second time, again ticking the Final pay for the financial year? box. This second submission will naturally be an Update event, which lets you send STP for all employees paid within the financial year, so no one misses out on being finalised. It is fine to submit employees in both the New and Update finalisation events; their figures will not be doubled up.
The next pay run begins your new financial year, and all YTD figures start again once you complete your first pay run with a processed date in July.
ATO Responses:
To check for responses, go into Single Touch >> Single Touch Mailbox and Lightning Payroll will see if anything has been returned from the ATO. Lightning Payroll also automatically checks responses for you on shutdown of the desktop program, and overnight for online/mobile users. Responses take anywhere from two minutes to three days to come back. The program will not recheck until at least two minutes since the last check.
