If you’ve received a letter from the ministry of justice indicating that you’ll need to start deducting the balance of a fine from an employees wages you’ll need to follow these steps to ensure you can do this in MYOB Acumatica. For additional information you can vists https://www.justice.govt.nz/fines/about-fines/employers/
First you will need to be sure that you have the supplier for MOJ set up in your system and you will need to be sure the supplier has payment instructions set
Now you’ll need to create a new Pay Item (Payroll>Pay Item Configuration>Pay Items)
If your Pay Item has <NEW> as the pay item ID you can leave this field and it will automatically populate when saved - if this field is blank please enter a pay item description
You’ll need to enter a description on the pay item and the payslip label
Pay Item Type needs to be set as a deduction - this automatically updates the tax to be Not Taxed - Normal After Tax deduction
On the additional info tab
You can choose the visibility settings that you require
Select the Reducing Balance check box
In the deduction category you’ll need to select Attachment Order - this means you can add a reference number for employees specifically and that it is a priority deduction and will go out before anything else such as staff loans etc
Select a General Ledger Purpose for the pay item, which determines how it should behave when being posted to GL journals
Select the MOJ supplier - this will auto populate the payment instructions
Select the cash account to use in transactions for this pay item. The account can be overridden in employees’ Standard Pays if necessary.
Save your changes
Now click on “Pay Item Liabilities” and ensure that nothing is ticked against your new pay item
Now you’ve set the pay item up you’ll need to add this to your employees pay details
Go to the Pay Details (People>Employees>Pay Details) and enter in the employee who needs to have the deduction added to their pay
On the standard pay tab use the plus symbol to add a new line, in the new line please select your new pay item - if you try to save the pay item you will get an error, If this happens that’s fine you can click OK to the error message and manually add in the payment reference required
Please enter in the Payment reference, Code & Particulars required this can be found at the bottom of the screen when you have highlighted the pay item
Enter the total amount to recover
In the quantity field enter the amount that will be deducted from the employees pay for each pay period
Save your changes