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I've just had 2 employees request upwards withholding as they both got a shock after submitting their tax returns. Both are casual and work multiple jobs and the ATO 'no tax-free threshold' rate wasn't enough to cover them. As they work for us intermittently, the ability to withhold an additional percentage would be useful. Thank you!

surprised this is not already an option. please add asap, very important

Same for a % increase due to an ATO approved Medicare levy variation.

Having to manually calculate taxes in a product you pay a premium for is slightly ridiculous

It's really not a complex thing to add...

I've just had my first official request for a withholding % and have come across this thread. Please add this into Xero. If its been raised such a long time ago and seems to be something that employees can generate freely in MyGov, it needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency

How is this still an issue guys. Please may this be assessed and updated ASAP. Raised over 2.5 years ago and still not addressed.

It's been over 2 years since the request was raised and still no action from XERO! Surely it's not that hard!

If ATO provides it as an option, it should be enabled in Xero.

Please stop making us calculate this manually every fortnight!

Agree, this needs to be actioned ASAP.

This is a really important feature to me - doing payroll for 30 people, I CANNOT manually calculate taxes for 5 of them. Xero makes everything else so easy but this is incredibly difficult. If ATO provides it as an option, it should be enabled in Xero.

Why has this not been done yet? Pretty important feature to not be manually calculating and messing up pays. I bet your programming would fix it the day that it impacted them. Not real happy that this is still ongoing nearly 2 years on

This is really non-compliance by Xero. If a government document provides you with this option then it should follow that the software should allow this.

This feature is desperately needed. I can't allow my clients to manually create an adjustment to the payroll each week and risk them mis-calculating the amount to be withheld. Aside from the fact that it's just cumbersome, it's just highly erroneous and their staff won't appreciate the wrong amounts being withheld each week. When will Xero action this?

First time i have had an employee request a % amount to be taxed over and above his normal. Cant believe that Xero does not allow for this calculation. Manually having to calculate this percentage every pay week is simply not OK. Fix it. if the ATO allows for employees to do this then the accounting program should also comply.

Critical!! Absolute achaic that Xero can't OR won't action this ASAP. These posts below are old. We as clients or Xero pay big $$ and not impressed that Xero can't action what is requested through an employee's TFN.

The ATO specifically provides this option to employees when completing their online TFN Declaration, which is then linked electronically with the business. If it is provided at the ATO level I feel like it should absolutely be included in all payroll software; I now have to manually calculate an employee's tax every week and hope I don't muck it up because they have requested via the ATO's form an additional % PAYG and their pay varies from week to week given that they are casual.

This is so important. I have a Client with 2 employees with varying wages each fortnight so they want to pay a % of extra tax based on their earnings. Having to do it as a payroll deduction is not feeding into the Activity Statement or getting reported via STP. I have to override the auto feed on IAS and BAS at the ATO - this is going to cause issues at EOFY trying to reconcile PAYG reported via STP vs what was actually collected. We need the option of % for extra tax fixed urgently. Other softwares can do it - why cant Xero???

Would like "upward variation amount to be a percentage amount" be actioned. Other accounting software providers offer this.

critically important has caused some of our clients to not want to change to xero