What is Single Touch Payroll (STP)?

Tasmin Trezise

14 February 2013    |    Events & Media AU    |   

Mossman State High School graduates Tasmin Trezise and Jake Phillpot are hoping to set up a head office in Far North Queensland for their rapidly growing tech business, Tanda (Previously PayAus). The software and payroll processing company is currently based in Brisbane and is helping organisation of five and upward staff significantly reduce their labour costs. “Tanda deliver a digital answer to traditional time sheets,” founder Tasmin Trezise said. “Our system eliminates time theft and produces unbelievably easy reporting and businesses save money from day one as there is no upfront cost.” The system involves installing a managed hardware device into your business and employees record their start and finish times by entering a unique four digit. The system will send the data back to the central server where organisational rules are applied and time sheets are calculated effectively reducing labour costs. “It’s not a choice anymore, small to medium businesses need to be thinking about their staff costs all the time and we are able to help them do it.” Mr. Trezise said. Tanda founder Jake Phillpot said growing up in local small business families meant the pair were passionate about bringing technical innovations back to far North Queensland. “We made Tanda to be the most powerful and economic payroll and cloud timesheeting solution on the market for small to medium size organisations,” he said. “It’s about keeping family business strong, simple and together.” Visit www.tanda.co for more information.

Renée Mellish

3 March 2016    |    Product Updates    |   

We’re working on some big improvements to the Tanda leave management module we thought you might like to hear about. After a lot of feedback from our customers, we’ve found three reasons to build a fully fledged leave management module. Leave is universal. All permanent staff take leave. It’s a core, but often poorly managed, interaction between businesses and employees. It’s expensive, but all too easy, to poorly plan and administer leave. What are we building? Here’s a mockup from one of our designers, which should give you an idea of some of the features we’re working on… For Managers and Business Owners One place for all leave requests, that integrates with timesheets and rosters. Contextual information to help you decide if you should approve or deny a leave request. You’ll be able to edit leave details (like dates, hours, and the tag to export to payroll) when approving leave requests. A simple way to email the reason for approving or rejecting the leave request from inside Tanda. For Payroll Managers One place to review all leave for the current pay period. Easy to make corrections to leave before you export it to your payroll system. Gives you a full audit trail, with reasons and notes on every leave request. For Employees Saves you filling out a paper form to request time off. Gives you the best chance of having the time off you want approved. Prevents you from being rostered on when you are on leave. What aren’t we building? We aren’t tracking how much leave employees are entitled to (also known as leave balances). Your payroll system needs to be the single source of truth for this information. That said, if you use MYOB AccountRight Live or Xero, we are able to import a copy of the leave balance at the end of the last pay run, so at least you’ll have that as a guide. We also have lots of ideas on how to make rostering around leave easier, which we plan on building once this approvals queue is done! When is this coming? Keep an eye out over the coming months for details on how you can see previews of proposed changes. In the meantime, we would love to hear and feedback you may have about the current leave management process. You can either email this through to support@tanda.co or email your Tanda account manager.

Phil Johnson

5 June 2017    |    Clients & Partners AU Events & Media AU    |   

The new Federal Government initiative of Single Touch Payroll will aim to streamline business reporting obligations regarding certain taxes and wage information. Legislated on the 16 September 2016 under the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016, Single Touch Payroll (STP) will become mandatory July 1 2018, for employers with 20 or more employees. Single Touch Payroll will be available to employers July 1 2017, for those who wish to begin voluntary reporting earlier. Under the legislation, employers will be required to report ordinary time earnings, staff wages, Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) withholding information, and superannuation contributions directly to the ATO, at each payroll cycle.  What do you need to do? In order to report the necessary information to the ATO businesses with 20 or more staff (as of April 1 2018) will be required to implement Single Touch Payroll compliant payroll solutions in their business, prior to July 1 2018. Payroll solutions refers to the accounting software, business management solutions or payroll software that you use to process payroll. Already have a payroll solution? Business with 20 or more employees (as of April 1 2018), that are already using a payroll solution will be required to update their software to be Single Touch Payroll compliant before July 1 2018. The ATO has advised that they are working closely with payroll providers to ensure that their products are ready for Single Touch Payroll in 2018. Don’t have a payroll solution? Businesses with 20 or more employees (as of April 1 2018), who don’t have a payroll solution in place, will need to implement one ahead of July 1, that is compliant with Single Touch Payroll. There is currently no requirement for employers with 19 or less employees (as of April 1 2018) to begin reporting through Single Touch Payroll. However, businesses can choose to implement a compliant Single Touch Payroll system if they wish to utilise Single Touch Payroll reporting. Someone else does your payroll? If you have a Tax or BAS agent or third party, who lodges your relevant paperwork your behalf, they will be required to report through Single Touch Payroll from July 1 2018. The ATO is working closely with Tax and BAS agents to ensure they are ready for Single Touch Payroll. Individuals should however check with their agent before July 1 2018, to confirm that they are compliant and ready for Single Touch Payroll. Benefits of updating your Payroll solution Upgrading or implementing a STP compliant system is a great excuse to evaluate the other business systems you have in place, and upgrade them where necessary. Integrating core business systems such as payroll, workforce management, POS, inventory, record keeping and reporting, can be hugely beneficial in streamlining business efficiencies. Not only does its result is greater oversight and compliance, but it also provides a more wholesome and in-depth overview of the entire business, which can help you to make smarter more informed decisions for the whole business. For more information about how to be compliant with Single Touch Payroll, chat to your accountant or visit the ATO website.