Warning

Explanation

There is no requirement to record the financial year a Lump Sum E payment relates to during Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 1. However, once your business transitions to STP Phase 2, it will become mandatory to record the financial year in the pay run. The reason for this is because they relate to back payments that could have been over 12 months ago but which you only paid for in the current financial year.

So you will see this warning when you paid an employee against a pay category with the payment classification of Lump Sum E and where you have not recorded a financial year for this payment in the pay run. You will need to resolve this error before you can submit an STP lodgement.

Solution

You will need to first unlock the pay run so you can edit the relevant employee information. To read further information on this feature, you can refer to the following article. You will then need to update your employees' lump sum payment details, save the changes, then finalise the pay run. Once you have made these changes, the warning will disappear. However, you may need to refresh your pay event or update event data for these changes to take effect.