Tax Return:: When you don't have a Payslip/Payment Summary

Hello, this is your tax specialist, P&C Tax Professionals.

One of the many questions that have been asked by a number of our customers is how to apply for a tax return in the event that you have not received a payslip or payment summary from your employer. The good news is that you can still apply for your tax return with your accountant whether it be that your employer did not send you your payslips or you've misplaced your payslips or if you have ceased your employment with the company and therefore cannot log in to retrieve your payslips anymore.

The ATO has recently changed the way employers report payslips and payment summaries for the employees known as the Single Touch Payroll (STP) system. This obligates employers to report the wages they've paid out to each and every one of their employees through the STP system.

This means that assuming that the company you are working for has strictly abided by all the laws and standards put in place, they would have reported the payroll data for all of their employees to the ATO so that it can be referred to if needed. Hence, this also enables accountants to check the reported payroll data for their customers by looking it up on ATO's online services for tax agents.

If for whatever reason you can no longer locate your payslip or payment summary and are concerned about how to go about lodging your tax return, once you contact us through our email address at: pnctax@naver.com or via our Faceboook Page (P&C Tax Professionals - Australia), we can obtain your payroll details by searching it up on the ATO portal for tax agents and process your tax return from there.