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The ATO has identified employee STP records that may have been duplicated during the 2020-21 financial year. Duplicate records can occur when an employee is recorded more than once with a different business management software ID, branch ID or payroll ID in an employer’s STP reporting.

We will soon begin consultation with digital service providers (DSPs) on the development of a new service to support the government’s proposed Your Future, Your Super package of reforms, announced in the 2020-21 Budget.

Digital service providers (DSPs) can now access open source code for the new digital Cash Flow Coaching Kit, designed to help support small business. 

To ensure continuity of service you may need to install new SBR certificates. This will depend on whether the application accepts new certificates without intervention or has implemented certificate pinning.

Upcoming key dates for JobKeeper Payment extension

The new SBR1 PROD sbr.gov.au Certificate was successfully deployed on Thursday 12 November at 7.00am AEDT.

The new certificate will be deployed between 11.00pm AEST on Thursday 13 August and 7.00am AEST on Friday 14 August 2020.

For Tax Time 2020, tax preparation software will need to be updated to reflect the following payments being replaced by the JobSeeker Payment:

Soon, new features will be available for myGovID and Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM), as well as Access Manager and machine credentials, to assist you and your users. This includes:

Help reduce employer errors with their single touch payroll (STP) reporting by encouraging your clients who have purchased or subscribed to SBR-enabled Cloud software to register their unique software service ID (SSID) number with us.