Tax and Compliance Details for Australian Deductions

Payroll Administrator Guide

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R2025.2.1
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Tax and Compliance Details for Australian Deductions

Tax and compliance settings for deductions are defined in the Tax and Compliance tab of the Deductions tab in Payroll Setup > Earnings and Deductions. This tab includes top-level settings and Australia specific settings in the Australia sub-tab.

Before You Begin: For general information about tax and compliance details for earning definitions, see "Tax and Compliance Details for Deductions" in the Dayforce Implementation Guide.

Note the following about the top-level settings for Australian deductions:

  • The Employer Deduction checkbox isn’t applicable for Australian deduction definitions.
  • For Australian deduction definitions, select the Contractor Payroll option in the Process for Employment drop-down list to create a dedicated deduction definition for contractors. Note: Pensioner Payroll isn’t applicable for Australian deduction definitions.
  • The Superannuation contribution funds checkbox indicates whether the deduction is used for superannuation deductions.
Settings for Australian deductions
Parameter Description
Tax Type

The following options in the drop-down list affects how the deduction impacts earnings and taxable wages:

  • Memo: The deduction doesn't impact an employee's earnings or taxable wages. It shows in the Memo Information section of the earning statement.
  • Post-tax: Dayforce withholds the deduction from the payment after it deducts employee taxes. For example, if an employee has $1,000 in earnings and a $100 post-tax deduction, their taxable wages are $1,000.
  • Pre-tax: Dayforce reduces the taxable wages by the deduction amount before it withholds the employee taxes. For example, if an employee has $1,000 in earnings and a $100 pre-tax deduction, their taxable wages are $900.
  • Salary Sacrifice: The employee has a reduced gross salary in exchange for non-cash benefits from their employer. The sacrificed amount is deducted before tax is calculated which can lead to tax savings for both the employee and employer.
Tax Method

Drop-down list containing the following options, depending on the option you select from the Tax Type drop-down list.

For the Gross Pay Deduction tax type, the available options are:

  • Employee Salary Sacrifice (Other): (pre-tax)
  • Employee Salary Sacrifice - Superannuation
  • Fringe Benefit Tax
  • Fringe Benefit Tax Exempt
  • Workplace Giving

For the Net Pay Deduction tax type, the available options are as follows:

  • Advance
  • Loan
  • Miscellaneous: this tax type ensures that the deduction definition is calculated on gross earnings before applying the PAYG tax for Australia
  • Superannuation ER
  • Union

For the Memo Deduction tax type, the following tax methods are available in Australia:

  • Fringe benefit tax
  • Fringe benefit tax exempt
  • Reportable superannuation contribution
  • Superannuation ER
Superannuation contribution funds Indicates whether the deduction is used for superannuation deductions.