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Is your business prepared for Single Touch Payroll?
Posted by Team AVS on 22 Mar, 2018 0 CommentsSingle Touch Payroll is a government initiative to streamline business reporting obligations, which is due to become compulsory from 1 July 2018. When a business pays its employees, the payroll information will be sent to the ATO via the business’s payroll software.
Any voluntary disclosure that is made by a taxpayer before being told that an audit is to be conducted will reduce the base penalty amount by 80% if the shortfall is greater than $1,000 or is a scheme shortfall amount or to nil if the shortfall is less than $1,000.
The taxpayer will generally be taken to have made an honest mistake unless there is information to indicate that the taxpayer did not make an honest mistake. The voluntary disclosure must be made in writing, be signed with the appropriate taxpayer or agent declaration and posted to the ATO.