Taxable payments annual report (TPAR) overview

If your Australian company or entity is required to report payments made to contractors and subcontractors in a Taxable payments annual report (TPAR), you can generate your report in Sage Intacct. Then, you can use the information from the report to lodge your TPAR with the Australian Tax Office (ATO).

About the TPAR

The TPAR records payments that you make to contractors and subcontractors in specific industries:

  • Building and construction services
  • Cleaning services
  • Road freight and courier services
  • Information technology services
  • Security, investigation, or surveillance services

The ATO provides guidelines to determine whether you need to lodge a TPAR and which vendors you need to include.

What's included in the TPAR

  • Your payer information
  • Vendor details, such as the vendor ABN and contact information
    A vendor is included in the TPAR when TPAR is enabled on the vendor record and you made payments to the vendor during the fiscal year.
  • Total amount you paid to the vendor during the reporting period, which includes GST
  • Total GST paid to the vendor during the report period
  • Total tax withheld, if applicable
  • Acknowledgment that you received a Statement by a supplier, if applicable

Setting up TPAR for your company or entity

Before you can run your first TPAR in Intacct, you need to do the following:

  • Enable the report for the company or entity.
  • Provide entity-specific legal contact information.
  • Assign run permission for TPAR to the users who will run the report.
  • Enable TPAR on the vendor information page, for those vendors whose payments you need to report.

When you enable TPAR for a vendor, a TPAR tab is added to the Vendor information record. Use the TPAR tab to record the following:

  • Taxes that you withheld, such as when an ABN was not provided
  • Receipt of a Statement by a supplier that indicated you are not required to withhold taxes

Running the report and lodging your TPAR

Run your TPAR after the financial year ends and check the information for accuracy.

After you verify that you have the results that you expect, you can do one of the following:

  • Export the report you generated and provide it to your tax professional.
  • Use Export TPAR file to generate a machine-readable file that's ready for you to upload to the ATO.