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Attaché Payroll (Australia): Reporting lump sum E (Label E) payments

How to report back pay transactions from a previous year

Updated over 2 months ago

Lump sum E payments relate to an earlier income year (or years) and return to work payments. Classified as assessable income, these payments are included in STP reporting. Please refer to the ATO website (www.ato.gov.au) for more details on Lump Sum Payment E.


Entering Label E lump sum payments

If you need to pay an employee a lump sum payment which is backdated by 12 months or more, you need to Create and use an allowance so that the payment is correctly reported. To do this:

  1. Go to Setups, Payroll, Allowances, Maintain

  2. Create an allowance as per the screen shot below, setting the Tax Certificate Code field to Lump Sum Payment E

Entering an Allowance line for Lump Sum E in a timesheet

  1. When creating the time sheet to include a lump sum payment, enter the year to which the payment refers in the Lump Sum Year field. This will be included in the relevant STP batch for reporting to the ATO.

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