An employee may report that they have an income statement displaying in MyGov that has a zero value.
This is most likely caused by YTD amounts having been zeroed out in an STP batch at some stage in the financial year.
An employee experiencing this is able to exclude the zero value Income Statement from their tax return. Ask the employee to follow the steps below to do this:
Log into My Gov.
From Your services, click on the ATO link.
Go to Tax, Lodgements, Income Tax.
Open the Income statement currently flagged as Not Ready (i.e. has not been finalised).
Navigate through to Step 4 Prepare Return.
Select Add/Edit from the Payment summaries area.
You will get the prompt: Your income statement is not tax ready.
Under the line Do you wish to include this income statement on your tax return?, select No.
The zero value income statement will then be excluded from your tax return.