The government $130 billion JobKeeper program is expected to keep millions of Australians in jobs and businesses in business during the coronavirus crisis.
With enrolments open from Monday, the ATO has issued further guidance to help businesses navigate the process.
The new guidance specifically relates to sole traders, employers reporting through STP, and employers not reporting through STP.
The ATO has explained that businesses using STP enabled payroll software that has been updated with JobKeeper functionality will be able to identify their eligible employees and update the ATO directly through their nominated software.
Those that use STP enabled software that has not been updated with JobKeeper will need to select their eligible employees from a list prefilled from their STP pay reports, or add up to 40 employees that are potentially eligible but no prefilled.
Those that do not use STP payroll software at all will need to, from 4 May, manually enter each eligible employee for each JobKeeper fortnight by entering their tax file number and date of birth.
You can access the ATO’s JobKeeper guides here.
