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STP Error Codes

Single Touch error codes and the solutions to fix them.

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Definitiv Error

Error

Comment

DEF001

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DEF100

A termination record is required when making Lump Sum Type A payments.

Please check you have correctly terminated this employee

DEF200

A tax or ABN declaration is required.

DEF201

A hire Date is required.

DEF202

A primary role is required.

STP Error

ATO Error

Error

Comment

ATO.GEN.XML03

A field contains invalid data (such as letters in numeric or date fields).

ERR201


Terms and conditions acceptance must be provided

Our Sending Service Provider (SSP) must be enabled to submit STP lodgements from Definitiv. Go to Admin > Configuration > Organisation Details > ATO Details > STP Lodgements.

ERR202

Terms and conditions signatory must be provided

Our Sending Service Provider (SSP) must be enabled to submit STP lodgements from Definitiv. Go to Admin > Configuration > Organisation Details > ATO Details > STP Lodgements.

ERR203

PAYEVNT details must be provided

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ERR204

ATO.PAYEVNT.000192

PAYEVNTEMP details must be provided

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ERR210

ATO.PAYEVNT.000015

Your organisation's ABN is invalid.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000110

Your organisation's contact email address for the ATO contains invalid text.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000172

Your organisation intermediary's ABN is invalid.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000173

Your organisation intermediary's contact email address for the ATO contains invalid text.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000177

Either your organisation's ABN or Withholding Payer Number must be provided, but not both.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000183

Your organisation's Withholding Payer Number (WPN) is invalid.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000191

Payee Record Count must be equal to the number of children (PAYEVNTEMP)

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000192

At least one PAYEVNTEMP child must be provided

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000196

Payer Period Totals must not be provided

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000199

Payer Period Totals must be provided

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000200

The Pay/Update Date must be on/after the 1st July 2017

Review and correct your pay run dates.

ATO.PAYEVNT.000203

Your organisation intermediary's Registered Agent Number is invalid

ATO.PAYEVNT.000210

Previous BMS Identifier must not be provided

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000211

Previous BMS Identifier can not be the same as BMS Identifier

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000213

Child support amounts must not be provided for Pay/Update date prior to 1st October 2020

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ATO.PAYEVNT.000215

Run Date/Time Stamp is 350 or more days from the Pay/Update date

Review and correct your pay run dates

ATO.PAYEVNT.000218

The Pay/Update Date is in July of the current financial year and you are finalising more than 50 percent of payees

Check you have finalised for the correct financial year

ERR422

ATO.PAYEVNT.000219

You must provide a contact name for your organisation

Add a contact name in Organisation Details > ATO Details

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000033

The state or territory is missing from the address

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000034

Postcodes must be in the range of 0200-9999

ERR270

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000126

Contractor ABN is invalid

ERR359

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000131

Email address contains invalid text

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000154

A postcode is required

ERR361

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000166

Date of birth cannot be a future date

ERR504

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000167

An ABN or a TFN is required

ABNs are only required when reporting Non-Employees and Voluntary Agreements. All other situations, a TFN is required.

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000172

Duplicate ETP codes and Payee ETP Payment Dates

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000174

Update event: The period end date must be the same as the period start date

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000179

The period start date must be within the same financial year as the pay/update date

Review and correct your pay run dates

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000211

A contractor ABN must be supplied when reporting gross payments or PAYGW in the Voluntary Agreement income type

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000228

Only one of each of the following Income Stream Type Code can be provided: SAW, CHP, WHM, SWP, JPD, VOL, LAB, or OSP

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000237

Duplicate Paid Leave Type

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000239

A Cessation Reason Code must be provided

Review the termination for this employee and ensure it is correct.

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000252

When an income type other than Voluntary Agreement is provided, a TFN must provided

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000253

Tax treatment code is invalid

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000254

Third character of tax treatment code is invalid

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000255

Tax treatment code is invalid for STSL

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000256

Fourth character of the tax treatment code is invalid

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000257

Fifth character of the tax treatment code invalid

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000258

Sixth character of the tax treatment code is invalid

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000269

Contractor ABN cannot be the same as payer ABN.

You cannot report a contractor with the same ABN as your organisation.

ERR584

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000270

Year of birth can't be more than 120 years in the past

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000274

Income Stream code VOL must be provided when Voluntary Agreement Employment Basis used

When reporting contractors with the Voluntary Agreement employment basis, you must report gross payments and PAYGW in the Voluntary Agreement income type.

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000275

The contractor's ABN must be provided when an Employment Basis is Non-Employee

As this person's employment status has the Non-Employee employment basis assigned, an ABN is required for reporting.

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000277

When Employment Basis Code is N, only a Super Liability Type of L can be provided

You cannot report anything other than Super Liability for Non-Employees. You will need to either correct the employment status or reverse out incorrectly processed pay items.

ERR591

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000281

Employment Basis must be provided

Not Specified is not a reportable Employment Basis. Check what employment status is assigned in the primary role. Then review the employment basis assigned (Admin > Configuration > Employment Types). Either correct the employment basis or change the employment status selected in the primary role.

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000283

Payee cessation date must not be more than 10 years in the future from the current date

Cannot report a termination that is more than 10 years in the future

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000284

Tax Treatment for a single senior must not provide a spouse medicare levy reduction

ERR597

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000286

When the Pay/Update Date is after 30/6/2020, Tax Treatment Code must be provided

Check the employee has an active tax or ABN declaration record for the primary pay period

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000287

When the Pay/Update Date is within the current financial year and the Tax Treatment Code is Death Benefit, a Cessation Type Code of D and an ETP Type Code of D, B, N, or T must be provided

When a tax variation of Death Beneficiaries exists, you must also report a termination assigned to the cessation type Death as well as a death benefit ETP

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000289

The Tax Treatment code Voluntary Agreement must have a valid income type

When reporting contractors with the Voluntary Agreement employment basis, you must report gross payments and PAYGW in the Voluntary Agreement income type

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000292

The Tax Treatment code Death Benefit must have a valid Cessation Type Code and ETP code

When a tax variation of Death Beneficiaries exists, you must also report a termination assigned to the cessation type Death as well as a death benefit ETP

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000294

The Tax Treatment code Voluntary Agreement must have a valid Income Stream Type

When reporting contractors with the Voluntary Agreement employment basis, you must report gross payments and PAYGW in the Voluntary Agreement income type

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000297

Commencement date must not be more than one year in the future of the current date

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000302

Allowance items cannot be provided under Voluntary Agreement, Labour Hire or Other Specified Payments income types

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000303

Only one of the valid Allowance Type Codes, other than OD, can be provided per Income Type

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000304

Where multiple allowance data is provided, only a total of 150 allowance type codes of Other can be provided per income type

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000305

Reportable Fringe Benefits amount data cannot be provided when Payee TFN isn't provided or is default

When reporting Reportable Fringe Benefits, you must supply a TFN

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000306

Termination Payments cannot have more than 88 occurrences

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000350

An income type of; CHP, SWP, or IAA cannot be provided when the Pay/Update Date is before 1/7/2020

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000353

When multiple income types with a value of FEI or IAA are provided, they must have different country codes

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000354

Limit of 10 IAA and FEI codes reached

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000355

Only one FEI income type can be provided when the Pay/Update Date is before 1/7/2020

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000358

Country code must be provided when the income type is one of the following: FEI, WHM, or IAA

Review the employee's tax declaration and add in the country if it has not been provided

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000359

Foreign Tax Paid Amount must be greater than zero when Final Event Indicator is True

Ensure you have reported any foreign tax paid for the financial year

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000360

Bonuses and commissions cannot be reported under Voluntary Agreement, Labour Hire, or Other Specified Payments income types

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000361

Overtime cannot be reported under Voluntary Agreement, Labour Hire, or Other Specified Payments income types

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000362

Only 10 Lump Sum Type Codes with the value of E can be provided

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000364

When a deduction items tuple is provided, an income stream collection must be provided

You cannot report deduction amounts when there is no income type reported

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000365

You cannot report child support deductions amounts without also providing a payer ABN

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000370

Paid leave must not be provided under Voluntary Agreement, Labour Hire or Other Specified Payments income types

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000371

You cannot report a Return to Work lump sum payment in a financial year prior to 2020

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000373

Either a Termination Payment tax free component or a Termination Payment taxable component must be provided

Review the termination payment has been processed with the correct pay items

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000378

Employment Basis Code must not be N when the Pay/Update Date is before 1/7/2020

You cannot report non-employees prior to 01/07/2020

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000381

When Super Entitlement RESC is reported with no income type, a TFN must be provided and no other Super Entitlements can be reported

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000384

Medicare Levy Surcharge not valid for the first two characters of the Tax Treatment Code

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000385

Medicare Levy Exemption is not valid for the first two characters of the Tax Treatment Code

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000386

Medicare Levy Reduction is not valid for the first two characters of the Tax Treatment Code

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ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000388

You can only report negative lump sum amounts for Return to Work payments. All other lump sums must be a positive amount

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000389

Negative YTD values have resulted in a derived aggregated gross YTD amount that is less than zero. Review the negative amounts reported to ensure the derived aggregated gross YTD amount will result in an amount equal to or greater than zero

Review all year to date values. You cannot report figures which result in an aggregated gross YTD which is negative

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000392

When reporting Foreign Employment income, you cannot report a Lump Sum B payment

ATO.PAYEVNTEMP.000393

Period Start Date cannot be before 1/7/2016

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