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AU Payroll - Option for Weekly PAYG Withholding period

Ability to change our PAYG Withholding period to weekly. Only options are None, Monthly or Quarterly. The ATO requires we lodge and pay PAYGW weekly now and this is not possible in Xero. We have to change our PAYGW period to None so that it does not show on the BAS and manually calculate, lodge and pay this weekly.

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Accepted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hello everyone, we appreciate you engaging with us about this topic. To clarify, we acknowledge support in this idea has arisen from a new requirement from the ATO that means large orgs that withhold over $1M annually to submit PAYGW weekly via STP.

While we appreciate why you'd like to automate this flow of information from Payroll to BAS within Xero there are two current options;

  • Within Payroll settings you could untick “Reportable as W1 on Activity Statement” so your payroll data is not included in BAS, or
  • Manually remove the W1 and W2 figures from your Activity Statement to lodge activity statements for clients that are submitting weekly PAYGW.

This idea is on our product teams radar, however we want to be upfront that at this stage we don't have any plans for developing an automation of these fields.

We'll continue to monitor this idea closely, and share if there are any updates.

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  • Sarah Burns commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have a supplier who has recently moved to large employer and needs an automated option too

  • Tasha Palmer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Problem half solved - I just went into Activity Statement Settings and changed it to PAYG Withholding Period as None. The IAS's have disappeared and the September BAS has no PAYG section.
    I run a bank account called Integrated Client Account so I can match with the ATO portal. I run an 'account transactions report' on the PAYG Payable account and compare to the payruns and then I do a spend money to the Integration Client Account every week once I've filed the payrun. Then when I pay the PAYG I make it a transfer to the Integrated Client Account. It's a little clunky but I've just made it a part of my weekly payroll checklist.

  • Terrie Spence commented  ·   ·  Report

    We are also looking for a Xero solution to handle weekly PAYG Withholding.

  • Jaime Gordon commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have a client who just moved to a large withholder and needs the option for weekly PAYG Withholding.

  • Robyn Lawson commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have to submit fortnightly and Xero should be able to support this.

  • Tasha Palmer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any updates on this? If it's not going to be added as a feature at least a suggestion for how other customers handle it in their Xero files.

  • Diana Gardner commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have also been notified that we are now a large withholder and require this ability from 1 July 2025.

  • Amanda Rook commented  ·   ·  Report

    Large PAYG withholder client getting switched to weekly from July 2025. Need this option added to Xero payroll.

  • Tasha Palmer commented  ·   ·  Report

    we've been notified we're switching to weekly for next FY. Please add the option, surely there are plenty of Xero customers with that size payroll????