AU Payroll - Ability to calculate protected amount for child support deduction
Currently payroll is only able to child support as a deduction.
In Australia, there is a protected amount that employee needs to earn before the deduction is taken out of their pay. There isn't a function that will allow this currently.
Payroll officers manually have to keep track of this and remove the deduction if protected amount is not reached. Small businesses with a few employees would be able to keep track but for the likes of a bigger business with more than 20+ employees, this would be a nightmare.
Kristy Rutter
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Sallyann Duck
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It would help if a note was added to the Child Support Deduction guide stating that Protected Earnings are not supported by Xero at this time, and that this needs to be checked before completing a payroll.
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Deborah Mulvogue
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This is important and not just for child support deductions. I have a client who has an employee with a court ordered debt arrangement which includes a protected income amount.
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Lizzy Garrett
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This is a critical function, many other platforms provide a protected earnings hold amount. This is an Australian government mandatory requirement and this option needs to be implemented ASAP
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Kim Jackson
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Other platforms including MYOB AR have the ability to have a protected amount -this needs to be implemented ASAP
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Julia Payne
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I suggest you check out attache and how they manage protected earnings and child support. its all streamlined
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Kwei Ma
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For AU user. If we could have a special column in employee's bank account tab where we can record their child support detail (Services AU's bank account & individual's EFT code). Then for each pay run, the ABA file will include a line for the child support payment to be processed along with employee's net wage. Imagine if a business happens to have 10 employees paying child support, how much time it will save the payroll officer.