How to add employee in the last STP lodge for ATO

Hi loctran67,

There are a few reasons an employee may be missing from a STP lodgement. Firstly, they may be marked as 'closely held' in their settings and if so will not display as eligible for lodgements. You can check this by following the steps here. Secondly, their default pay schedule may not be the same as what you have selected when creating the event. All lodgements are created based on pay schedules and will include the employees who have that schedule set up as their default. To check this, select the employee's name and choose Pay Run Defaults, then scroll down and check their pay schedule. If it is different to the STP event, you can either change it to be the same as the event you are lodging, or lodge a separate event for this employee.

If the employee is not closely held, has the same default pay schedule but is still missing from the event, they may have been marked as Is Final in a previous event. By marking them as Is Final, you are advising the ATO that no further lodgements will be made for the employee and as such they will not show up on future lodgements for that financial year. To check and rectify this, see below:

1. Go to the Employees tab, then Reports.
2. Select Single Touch Payroll (under the ATO Reporting subheading).
3. Select the relevant financial year to review the events. You can click into these to review and see if the employee in question has previously been marked as Is Final (this will display on the far right of the page). Note that if a Finalisation Event has been created the employee will have automatically been marked as Is Final (whether it has been lodged yet or not).

To remove the Is Final status:

1. If the employee has been marked as Is Final in a Finalisation, Pay or Update Event that has been created but not lodged, all you need to to is click into event and delete it; then the employee will show up in your pay events. 
2. If the employee has been marked as Is Final in a lodged event, you need to lodge an Update Event to let the ATO know you're removing this status from the employee. Navigate to the Single Touch Payroll page once more and select Create Update Event, then enter the relevant FY and pay schedule and Create. 
3. If necessary, use the Actions button to add the employee to the event, and ensure the Is Final box on the right is not ticked. Then follow the prompts to Lodge with the ATO. Once you have lodged this and reversed the Is Final status, the employee will show up on other lodgements.

-Kass