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Heather Donnelly
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Hi community, thanks for continuing to engage, and sharing your needs in adding more layers to your chart of accounts structure.
We know especially for some of our US customers that this can sometimes be a show stopper in using of Xero.
Right now, we do have a product team that have begun exploring the efforts that'd be required to implement a change of this nature - while we can't commit to any development at this point we'll share any progression with you all here. Thanks
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We need the option of account headers, or sub accounts, similar to MYOB. This would make reporting so much easier.
As of Mid 2026
South Australian Portable Long Service Leave (PLSL) reporting
South Australia has two separate Portable Long Service Leave schemes that Xero payroll doesn't support with dedicated reporting:
Construction industry — bi-monthly employer returns.
Community services sector (new from 1 October 2025) — quarterly employer returns.
Right now there's no way to generate either return from Xero. We have to manually pull the Payroll Activity Summary/Detailed report, extract ordinary wages per eligible employee, and for construction, work out service days by hand (a day is credited for anything worked over 5 hours, plus paid leave, public holidays, RDOs and workers comp up to 2 years). Then we calculate the levy separately in Excel before lodging through the scheme's own portal.
This is the same underlying problem already raised for NSW and Victoria's PLSL schemes, but SA's rates, periods and eligibility rules are different again, so a generic report won't cover us — it needs to be configurable by state/scheme.
Requested: a report, filterable by state and scheme (construction / community services), that totals ordinary wages by employee for the selected period, calculates the applicable levy, and ideally tracks service days for construction. Even a customisable payroll activity report — grouped by employee per period, with tick-box selection of pay categories — would remove most of the manual work.
This affects every SA employer registered under either scheme, and non-compliance carries penalties of up to $10,000 per contravention, so it's not optional reporting we can defer.