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Attaché Accounts (Australia): Prepare and lodge a Taxable Payments Annual Report

Updated over 2 months ago

The Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR) in Attaché uses the Tax Invoices recorded on your BAS as a basis for the report. Therefore, your Attaché system must be set up to properly record GST and post to the BAS.



To update the BAS

  1. Choose Suppliers, Period End, Supplier BAS, BAS Update

  2. Select the required BAS period in Post to Period using F2 Find, then F9 Update

  3. Ensure the Date Range is correct, then F9 Update to run the update

  4. Close the window once the update is completed



To check what will be included in the file, generate the report

  1. Choose Suppliers, Period End, Taxable Payments, Taxable Payments Report

  2. Select Print Report and choose the required options and ranges

    📌Note: transactions will only appear on the report if a payment has been made against an invoice

  3. Select the Output tab and choose whether to send the report to printer or screen

  4. Choose F9 Print to generate the report.



To generate the TPAR file

  1. Choose Suppliers, Period End, Taxable Payments, Taxable Payments Report

  2. Select Generate File and choose the required options and ranges

  3. In Destination Path, browse to the directory where you wish to save the file

  4. The file name defaults to TPARYY.CO1, where YY is the financial year, which is the name requested by the ATO

  5. When you have entered the required options and ranges, choose the Supplier Details tab. Most of the fields are prefilled from the details entered in Company Options.

  6. If the payer and the person or organisation who is supplying the file to the ATO are the same, select The Payer is the Supplier. The Payer Details will then be copied to the corresponding Supplier Details fields and only the Supplier's Email Address will be editable (this field is optional)

  7. The Contact Name and STD Code & Phone No fields are blank the first time you create the file

  8. Enter a Contact Name and STD Code & Phone No. Ensure that you enter the full phone number, including the area code and do not use any special formatting characters
    e.g. 02 9929 8700, or for a mobile telephone number, 0412 555 666

  9. Choose F5 Save to save these details

  10. Choose F9 Transfer to generate the file


For information on how to lodge the file with the ATO, refer to the ATO website: https://www.ato.gov.au/business/reports-and-returns/taxable-payments-annual-report/lodging-your-tpar/

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