Explaining the Monthly JobKeeper Claim Form

Submission of the Claim Form
The submission of the Monthly Form on the ATO website is:

• An approved form, in Law, and therefore you MUST be authorised to lodge and have a Client Declaration
• The Claim form – an employer will NOT be paid unless they lodge this monthly form
• April report must be lodged by 31 May

May report: The law requires it to be lodged in 7days unless the Commissioner allows longer. We have requested the end of the following month is reasonable.

GST Turnover
ATO have now advised that the GST Turnover fields on the monthly report should be:

• “Entities should make a genuine effort to calculate and report current and projected GST turnover. If you later identify errors in the calculation, you will not be required to re-report to the ATO.
• “If the error is related to employee details or payments made, and will impact the amount of the JobKeeper payment(s), the employer/agent will need to call the call centre. There is no online amendment capability.”
• They have also advised that the GST turnover is to be calculated on the SAME basis as the decline in turnover test was calculated.
• They have explicitly called out that the Monthly report of GST Turnover is not being used to re-assess any Decline in turnover.
• They do note that if the projected decline that was used is unreasonable then they make enquiries.

Different Experiences – employee list
The ATO system provides a different experience depending on whether the employee has used payroll software with STP reporting and again a slightly different experience if you are using JobKeeper Codes in that software.

Payroll Software with STP and using JobKeeper Codes
The ATO are informed of the employers “eligible employees” through the use of the JobKeeper-Start codes.
Employer will NOT (currently) see the employee list nor be able to maintain it on the ATO website.
The ATO will prefill the number of employees – if it is incorrect then “edit” them, check the software is reporting the correct employees to ATO through STP.

Payroll Software with STP and NOT using JobKeeper Codes
The ATO are informed of the employers’ employees through STP reporting.
The Employer will be provided with the employee list and will be able to indicate JK status on the ATO website. They will also be able to add any missing employees.
The ATO will not prefill the number of employees in April, but will do so in May and following.
Payroll without STP software.
The ATO do not have the eligible employees and therefore the employee must add them.

• For less than 40 – this can be performed on screen
• For more than 40 they are required to complete a CSV file and submit it to the ATO.

The Employer will be provided with the ability to add employees and indicate the JK status.
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The ATO will not prefill the number of employees in April, but will do so in May and following.

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Sally

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