Foreign Employment Income processing scenarios

This help page explains the processes for different scenarios related to processing Foreign Employment Income (FEI) in MYOB PayGlobal.

Scenario	What to do
Normal Standard Pay Process during the year	Update Foreign Income Earner = YES on the employee’s Tax tab. Update Associated country with ISO Alpha 2-character code on the employee’s Tax tab. Add a Tax override to transaction view to remove tax Add Foreign tax paid converted to AU $ to the pay header in Transaction View.
Earnings already processed in MYOB PayGlobal as per normal – Full financial year	Update Foreign Income Earner = YES on the employee’s Tax tab. Update Associated country with ISO Alpha 2-character code on the employee’s Tax tab. Open a Manual Pay and add Foreign tax paid converted to AU $ to the pay header in Transaction View. Reverse normal tax if deducted already. Run an update event
Earnings already processed in MYOB PayGlobal as per normal – Part financial year and still a Foreign Income earner.	Update Foreign Income Earner = YES on the employee’s Tax tab. Update Associated country with ISO Alpha 2-character code on the employee’s Tax tab. Open a Manual Pay and add Foreign tax paid converted to AU $ to the pay header in Transaction View. Reverse normal tax if deducted already.
Earnings already processed in MYOB PayGlobal as per normal – Part financial year and no longer a Foreign Income earner	Engage Consulting to have the FEI Income Type and Associated country to be updated via SQL for the relevant pays as this cannot be updated via PayGlobal. Open a Manual Pay and add Foreign tax paid converted to AU $ to the pay header in Transaction View. Reverse normal tax if deducted already.
Earnings NOT processed in MYOB PayGlobal	Update Foreign Income Earner = YES on the employee’s Tax tab. Update Associated country with ISO Alpha 2-character code on the employee’s Tax tab. Import Earnings via a manual pay with Accums matching one of the pays they were FEI Add Foreign tax paid converted to AU $ to the pay header in Transaction View. If the employee is no longer FEI, change the FEI status back to NO after the pays have been processed/closed and sent via STP

If the employee is not a Foreign Employment Income earner for the full year, only reverse the normal tax for the Foreign Employment Income period. You will need to speak with the ATO or your accounts team to recoup the normal tax paid.

Other information

Processing a tax reversal

To process a tax reversal in a pay you need to work out the amount to reverse and process it as per the below:

In Transaction View add your Tax Override allowance
Enter the Override amount as a negative amount
Select the Override type as ‘Fixed’

Processing a tax adjustment to reduce the tax amount to zero.

To process the tax adjustment to zero in a pay, follow the instructions below:

In Transaction View add your Tax Override allowance
Enter the Override amount as a 0.00
Select the Override type as ‘Fixed’

How to open the Pay Header in Transaction View

In transaction view you can press CTRL P to open the Pay Header or you can double click on the Transaction code WRKD ‘Days Worked’ transaction.

If the employee was STSL during the FEI period and you need to reverse it, use the new STSL Tax Override function as mentioned in the 4.78 Release notes. Click Here

For further information, refer to the How to report Foreign Employment Income via STP using MYOB PayGlobal page.