{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/lodge-tpar/","title":"Prepare and lodge your TPAR","description":"Prepare the Taxable Payments Annual Report from the year's payments to contractors, review each payee, and lodge it with the ATO or download the file.","category":"Compliance","summary":"Open **Business › Tax Docs › New › TPAR** for the financial year. Exacc lists the year's payments per supplier: confirm each payee or mark it **Do Not Lodge**, then **Lodge via SBR**, or **Download file to lodge via ATO portal** and **Mark as Lodged**. Due by 28 August.","lastVerified":"2026-10-10","apps":["app"],"processIds":[],"start":{"label":"Open TPAR","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/books/tpar"},"menuPath":["Business","Operations","Tax Docs","New","TPAR"],"before":["Your suppliers' ABNs and addresses on their contacts, and the year's bills and payments entered."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Start the year's TPAR","body":["Open **Business › Tax Docs**, **New › TPAR**. Exacc collects the year's (1 July to 30 June) payments to suppliers from bill payments and spend-money transactions, one row per payee."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/books/tpar","image":"https://exacc.au/help/lodge-tpar/step-1.png"},{"step":2,"title":"Review each payee","body":["Open each payee: check the ABN, name, address and the totals (gross, GST, tax withheld). Set it to **Confirmed / Ready to Lodge**, or **Not to Lodge** for payments that are not contractor services. Nothing can be lodged while a payee is still **Draft**."]},{"step":3,"title":"Lodge","body":["**Lodge via SBR** › **Lodge to ATO** sends it straight to the ATO. Or **Download file to lodge via ATO portal**: enter **Your reference**, choose **Lodge as Business** or **Lodge as Agent**, **Get file**, upload it in the ATO's portal, then **Mark as Lodged** with the **Lodgement Info**."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"What Exacc does and does not do","body":["Exacc records the contractor payments you make and produces the TPAR from them. It does not make or process the payments."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/record-bill-payment/","https://exacc.au/help/add-contact/","https://exacc.au/help/lodge-bas/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}