{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/stp-finalisation/","title":"Finalise STP at the end of the financial year","description":"Make your employees' year-end figures final with the ATO (STP finalisation, by 14 July) from the last pay event of the financial year.","category":"Payroll","summary":"Open the last pay event of the financial year, click **Single Touch Payroll (STP)**, tick **Report this pay event as Final for {year} FY** (this also reports **all employees paid in this financial year**) and send it. The ATO then marks each employee's income statement as tax ready.","lastVerified":"2026-10-09","apps":["app"],"processIds":["stp_lodgement"],"start":{"label":"Open Manage Payroll","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/payroll"},"menuPath":["Payroll","Manage Payroll"],"before":["All the year's pay events approved and accepted by the ATO."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Open the last pay event of the year","body":["In **Payroll › Manage Payroll** open the last approved pay event dated in the financial year (to 30 June)."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/payroll"},{"step":2,"title":"Send it as final","body":["Click **Single Touch Payroll (STP)**, tick **Report this pay event as Final for {year} FY** and send. Exacc reports every employee paid in the year with the final indicator, including those who left.","If that pay event was already lodged, it goes as an amendment or full file replacement with the final indicator."]},{"step":3,"title":"Check it was accepted","body":["Wait for **Sent and accepted by ATO**. Employees then see their income statement as \"tax ready\" in myGov."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"Corrections after finalising","body":["Reopen the pay event, correct it and send again with the final box ticked (see **Lodge STP and amend a pay event**)."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/lodge-stp/","https://exacc.au/help/run-pay-event/"],"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."}