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AU Payroll - Super maximum contribution base

Employers are only required to pay superannuation guarantee up to a quarterly threshold (maximum contribution base). At the moment Xero doesn’t cap the super at this level, and will allow super above the cap to be booked. (In fact, to limit the super at the cap requires a work-around adding 2 lines, one with 0% super and another with the fixed amount up to the cap.). Employers can easily overpay their employees’ super. This functionality needs to be built into Xero.

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Accepted  ·  AdminDavid Reynolds (Admin, Xero) responded  · 

Thanks everyone, we appreciate you continuing to share your support for a maximum contribution base. We understand how this would reduce current manual calculations and help avoid overpaying super.

Our product teams have continued to review this idea as they plan their roadmaps, however at this point it's not something we've roadmapped.

For now this idea remains Accepted and will keep being considered as our product team plan future improvements to payroll. We’ll share an update here if there’s meaningful progress.

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  • Nicki Passanisi commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is terrible that Xero does not have this major functionality! We have just moved from myob (that has the ability to set the cap) to Xero and I am shocked that Xero support suggested a manual workaround which is so risky and subject to overpaid super. I looked at previous communication in Xero central and found complaints about this from 2021 - 2 years ago Xero!! How long is it going to take to have this put in place?

  • Daniel Tropiano commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is very important and should have already been implemented. I was lucky to work this out prior to the employee lodging their pay run. Please make this a priority Xero as a few of my customers have complained.

  • Elizabeth Wong commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very important. Hard to manually track and employees may end up with excess contributions.

  • Dane Pollack commented  ·   ·  Report

    I feel as though this functionality should have always been a part of Xero. Having to manually calculate this is problematic, and I'm sure a number of businesses are overpaying super as this functionality isnt built in.

    It doesn't seem as though it would be extremely complex to have implemented as other payroll software i have used does have this functionality.

  • Freya Pieroz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Every time one of my clients adds another employee who is paid above the maximum contribution base, I have to explain that the annual wage on their payslip only includes the maximum contribution base, and not the salary on which my client does not pay super. They all query it. Every time.

  • Graham Martin commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is an important matter to my clients - it is too easy to overpay super unless you adopt the manual chnages that have been suggested elsehwere in Xero Central

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