In this topic

• Introduction
• Important Information
• Employer Registration
• Employee Registration
• Period Reporting
• JobMaker Average Hours Test
• JobMaker Period Reporting
• Additional Resources

Introduction

The JobMaker program is a Federal Government subsidy to encourage increased employment of individuals aged 16 to 35 currently receiving government payments. Employers receive a weekly subsidy for a period of 1 year from the employee’s commencement date.

Important Information

For assistance in determining if your business is eligible for JobMaker you should consult your accountant or the ATO.

AussiePay cannot assist you in determining your eligibility for JobMaker.

Details can be found on the ATO Website.

Employer Registration

If you determine that you are eligible for JobMaker you will need to register your business. You can do this via the ATO Business portal. Alternatively, your Tax Accountant can do this for you.

During the Registration process you will need:

• Active Head Count as of 30^th September 2020
• Total Payroll $ for the period 7/7/2020 to 6/10/2020

Note: We recommend doing a clean-up of old Casual employees who have not been terminated, by putting a termination date before the 30th September to give a more accurate base line headcount figure.

Click here to see how to generate reports to get these figures yourself.

Click here if you would like AussiePay to generate these reports for you (Standard Hour Rates will apply)

* Charges will apply based on time taken.

Employee Registration

You should check an employee’s eligibility before nominating them for JobMaker. Please refer to the ATO Website for the most up to date eligibility.

Employees that meet the JobMaker eligibility need to complete a JobMaker Hiring Credit Employee Nomination Notice.

On receipt of a completed form please notify your payroll consultant so they can nominate the employee via STP by clicking here

Period Reporting

At the end of each JobMaker Period you need to:

• Confirm via STP if each JobMaker Employee met the 20 average hours per week paid or worked.
• Process a claim for the JobMaker payments from the ATO. This can be performed via the ATO Business Portal or via your Tax Accountant.

The JobMaker Periods and claim windows are:

JobMaker Average Hours Test

The process to confirm a JobMaker employee met the 20 weekly average hours is performed via a 1c payment to a special paycode.

AussiePay can process this on your confirmation of the employee average hours.

You can check the average hours a JobMaker employee has worked yourself by following the instructions here:

Alternatively, by clicking here AussiePay can generate summarised reports for your review. (Standard Hourly Charges will be applied for time taken for report generation).

You need to confirm to your Payroll consultant, at least 4 days before the end of a JobMaker claim period, the employees that met the minimum 20 average weekly hours that you wish to claim for.

Your payroll consultant will process a 1c payment for each employee to the ATO on a special Paycode to notify the ATO.

This can be done in your regular payroll processing or we can do this in an Ad-hoc payroll on request.

*Additional charges may apply if processed via an Ad-hoc payroll.

JobMaker Period Reporting

During the period end claim you will need to generate a Headcount & Payroll Dollars reports as per the initial registration but for the corresponding JobMaker periods.

You can generate these yourself using the process above.

Or by clicking here AussiePay can generate the reports for you. * Charged based on hourly rates

Additional Resources