Domestic payroll changes for FY 2026

ATO, Miscellaneous Award, Super

From July 1, 2025, changes to tax, super and pay rates have been bought in which may impact the payment to your nanny and domestic staff. Superannuation Increase to 12% Starting from July 1st, 2025, the superannuation guarantee rate will increase to 12%. This is the...

Payroll to do list for July 2024

ATO, Miscellaneous Award, Super

This start of the financial year, has bought in several changes to tax, super and wages. Which will impact the payment to your nanny and domestic staff. Superannuation Increase to 11.5% Starting from July 1st, 2024, the superannuation guarantee rate will increase to...

Employee vs contractor

ABN Contractors, ATO

Generally, nannies, housekeepers and most domestic staff or carers are seen by the ATO as employees rather than contractors. This doesn’t mean they can’t be genuine independent contractors. Each situation needs to be assessed individually. The ATO use to have a...

ATO super crackdown

ATO, Super

Since 2017, the ATO has been collecting employee payslips to manage to national tax gap. The most recent National ATO Audit Report concluded that many employers haven’t been paying superannuation to their employees on time or at all. Because of reports of large...

Superannuation increases to 11%

ATO, Super

Superannuation guarantee is set to increase from 10.5% to 11%. This will take effect from 1 July 2023. The super rate is legislated to increase to 12% by 2025. If the rate you pay your nanny is inclusive of superannuation, this will decrease the rate of your nanny’s...

Single Touch Payroll – update

ATO, Single Touch Payroll, STP

Individual household employers, hiring through a Withholding PAYG Number (WPN) were due to start the compulsory Single Touch Payroll (STP) compliance as at July 1 2022. This has just been extended up to 2033. So if you are employing your domestic staff as an...