Term

Definition

ABN

Australian Business Number

ATO

Australian Tax Office

BMS

Business Management Software (aka PayGlobal)

DSP

Digital Service Provider (aka MYOB)

EOFY

End of financial year

ETP

Employment termination payment

JPDA

Joint Petroleum Development Area

OTE

Ordinary Time Earnings

RESC

Reportable Employer Superannuation Contributions

RFBA

Reportable Fringe Benefit Amounts

SBR

Standard Business Reporting

SG

Superannuation Guarentee

STP

Single Touch Payroll

STP BIG

Single Touch Payroll ‘Payroll Reporting’ Business Implementation Guide

TFN

Tax File Number

YTD

Year to date

Term

Definition

BMS ID

The unique identifier of the "Payer".

The BMS ID, identifies:

• the software used to generate a STP submission, i.e. MYOB PayGlobal
• the specific PayGlobal database used to generate a submission, see GUID
• Employer ABN and branch number

Payer

Describes an entity making a payment which is subject to withholding.

In PayGlobal this is either company/employer identified in Modify Company Settings; or the company/employer identified in an Internal Company Settings record.

• Where a pay period is not related to an internal company, then the payer what's in Modify Company Settings.
• Where a pay period is related to an internal company, then the payer what's in that Internal Company Settings record.

Payee

An entity receiving a payment which is subject to withholding, this can be but, is not limited to an employee e.g. a contractor receiving a payment which is subject to withholding under a voluntary agreement.

In PayGlobal, this is your employees. The contract type linked to the employee record is used to define whether the employee is a real employee or a contractor.

Pay Event

The ATO's business definition of the mechanism that allows an employer to report payments subject to withholding via STP.

In PayGlobal, every pay sequence you close generates a Pay Event.

Update Event

The ATO's business definition of the mechanism that allows an employer to report changes to an employees demographic details or YTD amounts via STP.

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier that used to identify each business management solution per employer.

The GUID is included in the reported BMS ID

Finalisation Event

The mechanism that allows an employer to declare to the ATO that they provided all the information for each employee for a financial year. In other words how to tell the ATO this years payments is now completed.

When an employee gets reported as finalised, the ATO make the employee information available for income tax return prefill. It will also update the employee’s MyGov payroll page, to show the employee income statement for STP reported information is final for the financial year.

MYOB Agency API

This is the MYOB service that manages getting your data to the ATO securely.

This service means you do not need to have PayGlobal actively running with an open outbound port 24/7.