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Lodge a PAYG Payment Summary Report

by Intuit• Updated 2 months ago

Note: This only applies to businesses that are exempt from reporting Single Touch Payroll (STP) for the 2021/2022 financial year.

This page will tell you how to lodge your Pay As You Go (PAYG) payment summary via the payroll platform, or how to download an EMPDUPE (a simple text file) to lodge the report yourself.

Before you start:

  • Make sure your company details are recorded correctly in the ATO Settings screen, accessible from Payroll Settings.
  • Enable electronic lodgement from QuickBooks Payroll to the ATO. This can be accessed from the ATO Settings screen, then navigating to the Electronic Lodgement & STP screen.
  • Make sure you have published the employee payment summaries.

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • You can't send payment summaries electronically if:
    • The payee's address is incomplete
    • An employee has given you an invalid Tax File Number (TFN)
  • Single Touch Payroll is enabled for your company in the ATO Settings
  • When you start the lodgement process, you might see a warning if you have payment summaries that haven't been published yet. You can still lodge the payment summaries, but you'll need to send another lodgement once the unpublished payment summaries are published.
  1. Go to Reports (Take me there).
  2. Select Payment Summaries (located under ATO Reporting). 
  3. Choose the appropriate filters then select Show Payment Summaries.
  4. Select Lodge.
  5. Read and tick the terms and conditions, then select Lodge now.
  6. Select Close.

Once you lodge Payment Summaries you'll be able to view a Lodgement Receipt number by hovering over the Status field on the payment summary.

  1. Go to Reports (Take me there), then select Payment Summaries (located under ATO Reporting). 
  2. Choose the appropriate filters then select Show Payment Summaries. 
  3. Select EMDUPE.
  4. The EMDUPE file will now be downloaded.

From here you’ll need to refer to the ATO website for further guidance.

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