Is there an automated way for Manager to populate the CS garnishee and Period CS garnishee Total fields of the CSV uploaded for Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 reporting?
The method might be similar to how the Employee tax and Period W2 value fields are populated.
I’ve used Manager with the Single Touch Lite, Upload CSV method for a while, and it works well. I now need to deduct Child Support Garnishee payments for one employee.
I know that I can simply amend the CSV file before uploading, but if Manager could populate the fields automatically, that would of course be preferred.
A quick update as to how I’ve set this up with Manager.
Under “Settings - Payslip Items - Payslip Deduction Items” I’ve set up…
Name: CS Garnishee
Account: CS Liability
Reporting Category: (blank)
Manager Payslips print fine. The CS Garnishee is shown as a deduction as well as its YTD total.
The default Single Touch Payroll Worksheet (Phase 2) CSV file exported by Manager already includes the Period CS garnishee Total field (next to the Period W1 value and Period W2 value fields), reported as 0 (probably because the Reporting Category is not defined). The CS garnishee field is missing.
Before uploading the CSV file to Single Touch Lite, I simply add the CS garnishee field (or column) and fill in the correct values for CS garnishee and Period CS garnishee Total.
I’ve spoken with Services Australia - Child Support who confirmed garnishee STP reporting is correctly received.