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Termination Payments and Redundancies

Termination Payments Consulting & Compliance Services

Determining how to tax the various components of a termination payment can be difficult particularly in a redundancy situation. Shawcross Consulting provides a range of services to assist you in managing your PAYG Withholding obligations in relation to payments made on the termination of employment. If you are in the process of restructuring your work force and need to reduce the number of your employees then Shawcross Consulting can provide you with advice and assistance in relation to the options available including redundancies and early retirement schemes.

Consulting Services

Shawcross Consulting provides a range of consulting and advisory services to assist you in understanding and complying with your PAYG Withholding obligations in relation to termination payments. Some of the more common issues and services are detailed below:

  • Redundancies - is this a Genuine Redundancy
  • Classification of of payments - bonuses and incentive payments
  • Unused annual leave and long service leave (see Table 3 below)
  • ETP cap and whole of income cap - understand how these work
  • Payments made over more than 1 year
  • Early Retirement schemes - understanding the requirements
  • Salary packaging and termination payments
  • Private and class ruling applications 

Compliance Services

Shawcross Consulting has developed a template to assist employers with the calculation of the correct amounts to withhold on termination payments. A sample of the report is shown below. Some of the features of this template include the following:

  • Classification of payments made on termination (see Table 1 below)
  • Determining the correct taxation treatment of each component (see Table 2 below
  • Calculation of the correct amount of tax to be withheld on each component
  • Correct treatment of redundancy payments
  • Correct application of the ETP cap and the whole of income cap
  • Detailed calculation to be provided to employee
  • Population of Payment Summaries including the ETP Payment Summary

Sample Termination Payment Report

Table 1 - Classification of payments received on termination of employment

Table 2 - Taxation treatment of payments received on termination of employment

Table 3 - Taxation treatment of unused leave payments on termination of employment

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