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JobSeeker payment: Tax Time 2020 software updates
16 June 2020
The introduction of the JobSeeker payment from 20 March 2020 means that you will need to update tax preparation software for Tax Time 2020.
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Single Touch Payroll reporting: Tell your clients to notify us of their software service ID
2 June 2020
To help reduce employer STP reporting errors encourage clients to register their unique software service ID (SSID) number with us.
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STP reporting and withholding payer numbers
4 May 2020
Software clients with withholding payer numbers are exempt from Single Touch Payroll reporting for the 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years.
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Available now: new-look website
26 May 2020
The new-look Software developers website has been launched. Check out the improved website functions and you’ll get to experience a number of benefits.
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SBR2 EVTE3 test2.ato.sbr.gov.au certificate renewal
16 April 2020
The new certificate will be deployed on Thursday 30 April at 9.00pm AEST.
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It’s business as usual for myGov ID, RAM and M2M
6 April 2020
Recently we said a final farewell to all AUSkeys, with our new authentication and authorisation services – myGovID and Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM) and machine credentials (M2M) are now being used by tax and superannuation digital service providers (DSPs).
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New STP Phase 2 draft documentation
9 March 2020
To help you start assessing the impact of STP Phase 2 changes, we've published draft versions of the 2020 Message Structure Table and Message validation spreadsheets. These documents reflect the latest STP Phase 2 expanded dataset in anticipation of legislation being finalised.
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ATO STS Certs for SBR1 and BR2 - PROD and EVTE
2 March 2020
New ATO Secure Token Service (STS) certificates for SBR1 and SBR2 - PROD and EVTE will be deployed on Thursday 19 March at 5.00pm AEDT.
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