UPDATE - JobKeeper Extension
JobKeeper – Updated Eligiblity Rules
Please ensure you understand the updated eligiblity guidelines for JobKeeper Extension.
Click here for the PDF GuideJobKeeper Extension Processing in Xero
Follow these instructions if you are no longer eligible, newly eligible or continuing on with JobKeeper.
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JobKeeper
Before enrolling for JobKeeper, please ensure you meet the eligiblity requirements.
Click here for the ATO webpage regarding Eligible Employers.
Click here for the ATO webpage regarding Eligible Employees.
UPDATE - Click here for the ATO webpage regarding Religious Insitutions - click here for the JobKeeper religious practitioner nomination notice
JobKeeper Eligibility Fact Sheet
Our summary of JobKeeper Eligibility
Click here for the PDF Fact SheetJobKeeper Enrolment – Business Portal
Step by step guide to enrolling for the JobKeeper Scheme in the ATO Business Portal
Click here for the PDF GuideJobKeeper Enrolment – Xero
Step by step guide to enrolling for JobKeeper within Xero. This is how the ATO will know you are paying JobKeeper correctly to your employees.
Click here for the PDF GuideProcessing JobKeeper in Xero
After enrolling for JobKeeper in the ATO Business Portal and within Xero, you will need to ensure you are correctly processing payroll in Xero.
Click here for the PDF GuideMonthly Declaration – JobKeeper
After enrolling and paying employees, at the start of each month you will need to log in to the Business Portal and make a monthly declaration.
Click here for the PDF GuideHow to Reconcile JobKeeper and Cash Flow Boost
Our recommendations of how to code JobKeeper and Cash Flow Boost.
Click here for the PDF RecommendationsJobKeeper Process:
1. Read the ATO information and determine your eligibility as an employer
2. Read the ATO information and determine your eligible employees
3. Inform your employees in writing that you are intending to claim JobKeeper on their behalf
4. Collect the signed employee nomination notices from your employees - you don't lodge this anywhere, keep for audit records
5. Enrol your business for JobKeeper via the ATO's Business Portal
6. Enrol your employees for JobKeeper in Xero - and choose the correct starting fortnight you are claiming
7. Ensure your enrolled employees are paid at least $1,500 for eligibile fortnights and filing with Single Touch payroll
8. Make the monthly declaration in the ATO Business Portal
9. You should receieve last month's payroll in your bank account within a few business days
10. Determine how you want to reconcile and show the JobKeeper subsidy in your profit and loss