Taxation cuts
The marginal rate for the $18 201 - $45 000 income bracket is reduced from 16% to 15%.
STSL
• Changes to STSL rates and thresholds.
STSL Tax Scales 01 and 02 updated - Updated rates are applied to the Study and Training Support Loan (STSL) Tax Scales 01 (No General Exemption + STSL) 01 (STSL Only), and 02 (With General Exemption + STSL) 02 (STSL Only).
Termination Tax Changes
• ETP Lower Cap increases from $260,000 to $270,000.
• Redundancy Component D – Initial Tax-Free value increases from $13,100 to
$13,598 and Annual Tax-Free value increases from $6,552 to $6,801.
Additional 2026/27 changes
Superannuation Changes
The statutory Super Guarantee percentage remains at 12% from 1 July 2026.
Superannuation Guarantee quarterly Contribution Cap, will be replaced with a Yearly Cap $270,830
Please review the Superannuation changes for July 1 article for further details.
Note: If you have any termination payments to process for the 2025-2026 financial year, it is important that you process these before updating the tax tables for 2026-2027, or you will be incorrectly applying these termination tax thresholds to the termination.
Prior to updating your new Tax Tables:
Check your version of WageEasy in Help, About Wage Easy Payroll. The latest release of WageEasy is Version 8.1.2.8813. To ensure your end of year processing for 2026 is compliant with current ATO requirements.
Back up your WageEasy Database from File, Back Up/Restore, Back Up, select Backup Location, Add Files to Backup, select Start.
Tax Tables should be updated prior to processing your first pay to be reported in the new Financial Year (2026-2027).
To update the Tax Tables in WageEasy follow the below steps:
The new Tax Tables_2026-27_UPDATE.Pdl has been saved to the “Update PDL” folder in your Home Drive in the private cloud environment. To run the tax table update on each database, please follow the instructions below:
From Setup, Associations, select Tax Tables and Edit. Click on the Internet Tab at the top of the screen and ensure that only the Tax Tables & Rebates box is ticked. Select Update Now and Next. Load from disk file and browse for the tax file by selecting the ellipses button [...].
Select the Tax Tables_2026-27_UPDATE.Pdl file from Home drive:
CWEP######$(\\ausydwepcfs01 or ausydwepcfs02, Home \ Update PDL
Note: (##### is your 6 digit customer ID)Open, select Next, and Finish.
Important: Please read the bullet points below for valuable information.
Once updated, change your pay period ending (PPE) date in WageEasy to a bold date in July 2026, then, from Setup, Tax, Tables you will see in the description of each Tax Table the date (2026-27). Also, note the effective date is now 01/07/2026.
Once you have confirmed that the Tax Tables are updated, you are ready to process your first pay in July 2026. If you are still processing pays in June or are yet to complete your End of Year processing, you need to ensure that you change the Pay Period Ending (PPE) date back to the appropriate date in June 2026 to complete this.
If you have confirmed that the Tax Tables have been updated by checking Setup, Tax Tables, your employees may still appear to be on (25-26 tax tables) in Employee Details, Payments, Tax, this is due to your actual computer date that is still in a June date. If you process a pay with a PPE date of July the correct rates will be applied. Once your computer is in July the employee record will display correctly.
Repeat the above steps for any additional databases (companies) you may have.