Anyone do their own BAS statements?

[OceanPrincess]

Ok W1 is gross wages. Including tax. W2 is PAYG tax. Nothing to do with super.

Super is calculated and paid separately, either to your super fund or to the ATO directly.

How super is calculated: 9% of gross ordinary time earnings (OTE). What defines "OTE" in your industry will be different to others. I'm doing payroll for the electrical industry so overtime and other forms of hour-based pay are included (higher duties for example), but allowances are not. So I've set up my payroll system to calculate OTE for me and every quarter it spits out a super report telling me to pay X amount to the industry fund that our employees use, $A for Employee 1, $B for Employee 2, etc.

So for the purpose of the BAS, don't even think about super.

Think of super as being an employer expense that doesn't really come into the employee's pay at all, that might help. So keep it separate from the BAS. The BAS is all about tax - goods and service and pay as you go taxes. How much tax have you paid, how much do you need to pay, do you need to pay the ATO or do they owe you some back? It's tax driven.

Does that make sense/help?