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Creating your Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR)

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What is a TPAR?

Businesses in Building and Construction, Courier, or Cleaning need to report the total payments made to contractor services each year. 

Note: these industries may change, so it’s important to review the relevant ATO legislation.

These payments need to be reported to the ATO by 28 August each year. QuickBooks Online enables each relevant transaction to be highlighted for inclusion in the TPAR report, ready for electronic export to the ATO.


Step-by-step guide

Step 1: Show TPAR options

  • Select the Gear Icon, then select Company Settings > Expenses > Suppliers. Select the toggle for Show TPAR options for suppliers, and click Save.
 accounts and settings TPAR options for suppliers

Step 2: Enable suppliers for TPAR

To enable each supplier required to be included in TPAR, you can:


  • Select Expenses from the left-hand navigation menu and click into the Suppliers tab, locate the supplier and select the supplier’s name.
  • Click Edit in the top-right corner and scroll down to tick the box to Include this Supplier in my annual TPAR. Ensure you have all information required for the supplier for a TPAR report.
supplier ABN check box to include supplier in my annual TPAR

Step 3: Generate your TPAR

When a supplier has been enabled for TPAR, all existing transactions and new transactions for that supplier will be marked as included for TPAR. To generate the TPAR report:

  • Select Reports from the left-hand navigation menu and type ‘taxable’ into the Enter report name field.
  • Note: turning on a Supplier for TPAR will retrospectively tick transactions (for the financial year) for TPAR.
TPAR report in QuickBooks Online

Step 4: Download the TPAR report

  • Select Taxable Payments Annual Report from the Reports section. For the first time into the Report, a mini interview will commence to determine whether you’ll be reporting on a Cash or Accrual basis.
  • The report generated will display a summary of the totals reportable for each supplier for you to review. 
  • Once satisfied that the details are correct, Select Download TPAR


If any details are incorrect, the TPAR wizard won’t allow you to download the TPAR until they’re fixed. Once fixed, you can download an electronic file of the TPAR and upload and lodge via your ATO software of choice.

downloading TPAR report in QuickBooks Online

Related Resources/Articles

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How to

How do I turn on the Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR)?

Turn on the ability to add a supplier.

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How do I add a supplier to the Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR)?

Add a supplier to TPAR.

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How do I remove a supplier from the Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR)?

Remove suppliers from TPAR.

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