Process

1. To prepare STP payroll events with JobKeeper payment entries
   
   1. Select business/ Clients
   2. Select STP Payroll Event form
   
   
   
   3. Complete the Reporting information in section2:
   
   Reporting period details with total wages for all employees and total PAYGW amount.
   Now you need to update the Total gross wages paid for the reporting period to include the additional
   top up for the employees and the total PAYG withholding.
   
   4. Complete Employee’s section
   
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     Rollover or Manually enter employee’s payment details.
     
     
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     After adding employees choose either bulk update or select employee to add JobKeeper payment
     • Bulk update - it is used to update JobKeeper Start & JobKeeper Finish
       
       
     • Employee edit- Edit individual employee to update JobKeeper Start, JobKeeper Top Up & JobKeeper Finish
       
       
   5. Declaration & Lodgement
   
   
   
   

JOBKEEPER-START-FNXX (XX refers to fortnightly periods)

1. JOBKEEPER-START allowance is used to notify the ATO that this is the first JobKeeper reporting start period for the employee. The "JOBKEEPER-START-FNXX" allowance
   item is only used once to notify ATO that this is the first JobKeeper reporting start period for the employee.
   
   Edit employee’s pay run to add JobKeeper payment
   
   
   Go to Allowance Section and tick the checkbox
   
   Click on JobKeeperStart to start
   
   
   JobKeeper Start allowance will automatically added with nil amount (zero)
   
   
   

JOBKEEPER- TOPUP

1. For eligible employees who are paid less than $1,500 per fortnight must be paid a “top-up” amount to bring their taxable gross to $1,500 per fortnight for paydays within
   the JobKeeper fortnightly periods.
   
   Edit employee’s pay run to add JobKeeper payment
   
   Go to Allowance Section and Click on ‘Add JobKeeper Top-up’ button, then a row will be added with zero amount.
   
   
   
   Click on Allowance amount field to add top up amount ( Add YTD figure)
   
   
   

JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FNXX (XX refers to fortnightly periods)

1. JOBKEEPER-Finish allowance is used to notify the ATO that employee’s JobKeeper reporting ends.
   
   Edit an employee
   
   Go to allowance section => click on JobKeeper Finish button
   
   JobKeeper finish will be added automatically with nil amount (zero).
   
   
   Employees JobKeeper payment can be finished and started any time during 13 fortnights.

STP report previously submitted without JobKeeper payment

All STP reports lodged/reported earlier can be revised using Full-File replacement

1. 1. Go to My Lodgments =>History
   
   2. Select the report
   
   3. Go to More section (three lines with a box)=> Full file replacement
   
   4. Click on Agree to Confirm
   
   5. Select all eligible employees to add bulk jobkeeper start or manually update on each employee’s section
   
   6. For JobKeeper Top up - Edit employee and add top up under Allowance
   
   
   
   
   
   
   7. Save employee - Do it for all eligible employees
   8. Now you need to update the Total gross wages paid for the reporting period to include the additional top up and the total PAYG withholding.
   
   9. Proceed to lodgment.

    JobKeeper reporting periods

FN	Dates	Start allowance	Finish Allowance
01	30/03/2020 - 12/04/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN01	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN01
02	13/04/2020 - 26/04/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN02	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN02
03	27/04/2020 - 10/05/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN03	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN03
04	11/05/2020 - 24/05/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN04	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN04
05	25/05/2020 - 07/06/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN05	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN05
06	08/06/2020 - 21/06/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN06	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN06
07	22/06/2020 - 05/07/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN07	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN07
08	06/07/2020 - 19/07/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN08	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN08
09	20/07/2020 - 02/08/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN09	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN09
10	03/08/2020 - 16/08/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN10	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN10
11	17/08/2020 - 30/08/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN11	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN11
12	31/08/2020 - 13/09/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN12	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN12
13	14/09/2020 - 27/09/2020	JOBKEEPER-START-FN13	JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN13

Payroll cycles

1. Regardless of the frequency of regular pay cycles or out of cycle pay periods, or the pay period start and end dates, the $1,500 per fortnight applies to the paydays (payrun period) within the defined fortnights and from which fixed fortnight the payment applies. Special rules apply for payments within the month of April and for employees receiving monthly pay.

Pay frequency	JK Payment	Calculation
Weekly	750	1500 / 2
Fortnightly	1500	1500 X 1
Twice a month	1625	1500 X 26 / 24
Monthly (average)	3250	1500 X 26 /12

Subsidy duration and periods

1. The JobKeeper payment period commenced from Monday 30 March 2020 and will apply for 13 full fortnights until Sunday 27 September 2020. The ATO will reimburse
   participating employers monthly in arrears $1,500 for each full fortnight per eligible employee paid by the employer.

Manage Employees for JobKeeper payment

Employees are being paid less than the JobKeeper payment

1. Pay full JobKeeper payment to all eligible employees. You'll pay them their current pay plus top-up amount to bring their taxable gross up to the JobKeeper payment amount.
   JobKeeper payment is before tax and you can choose whether or not to pay superannuation on the top-up amount.

Scenario:

1. Nick is permanent part time employee on a salary $1,000 per fortnight before tax and who continues working for the employer

Reporting for fortnight 01

• Add other allowance as description as ‘JOBKEEPER-START-FN01’ and amount as 0 (zero)
• Add another allowance with other type, description as ‘JOBKEEPER-TOPUP’ and payment as $500 (as a cumulative YTD amount)

Reporting for fortnight 02

• Add another allowance with other type, description as ‘jobkeeper-topup’ and payment as $1000 (as a cumulative ytd amount)

Reporting for fortnight 03

• Add another allowance with other type, description as ‘JOBKEEPER-TOPUP’ and payment as $1500 (as a cumulative YTD amount)

Reporting for fortnight 13

• Add another allowance with other type, description as ‘JOBKEEPER-TOPUP’ and payment as $6500 (as a cumulative YTD amount)

Employees are being paid more than the JobKeeper payment

1. Pay them as normal and report to ATO via STP.

Scenario:

1. Adam is permanent full-time employee on a salary $3,000 per fortnight before tax and who continues working for the employer

Reporting for fortnight 01

• Add other allowance as description as ‘JOBKEEPER-START-FN01’ and amount as 0 (zero)
• Report $3000 as normal

Reporting for fortnight 02

• Report $3000 as normal

Reporting for fortnight 13

• Add other allowance as description as ‘JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN13’ and amount as 0 (zero)
• report $3000 as normal

Claim cycle

Employers will be required to notify the ATO of all eligible employees for which they wish to claim the JobKeeper payment after the last day of the last full fortnight in the calendar month. Employers will also be required to complete a monthly declaration online.