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Key dates about JobKeeper payment - Sole Traders


  • From 20 April: complete Step 1: Enrol for the JobKeeper payment.

  • From 4 May: complete Step 2: Identify your eligible employees and eligible sole trader or eligible business participant.

  • By 8 May: you must have paid your eligible employees at least $1,500 (before tax) for each JobKeeper fortnight to claim JobKeeper payments for April.

  • By 31 May: you must have completed Steps 1 and 2 if you want to claim for JobKeeper fortnights in April and May.

  • After May: If you are enrolling and identifying your employees and business participant for the first time after May, you must complete Steps 1 and 2 in the month you wish to claim for.

  • By 14 June: complete Step 3: Make a business monthly declaration for May.

  • By the 14th of each month: complete Step 3: Make a business monthly declaration to claim JobKeeper payments for the previous month.

  • You should also make any updates to your employees' eligibility using the 'Maintain' function as part of your business monthly declaration.


Before enrol for the JobKeeper payment, check the business is eligible.



Employers are eligible for the JobKeeper payment if all of the following apply:

  • On 1 March 2020, you carried on a business in Australia, or were either  

  • a not-for-profit organisation that pursued your objectives principally in Australia, or

  • deductible gift recipient (DGR) endorsed either, as a public fund or for a public fund you operated, under the Overseas Aid Gift Deductibility Scheme (DGR item 9.1.1) or for developed country relief (DGR item 9.1.2) 

  • You employed at least one eligible employee on 1 March 2020.

  • Your eligible employees are currently employed by your business for the fortnights you claim for (including those who are stood down or re-hired).

  • Your business has faced either a    

  • 30% fall in turnover (for an aggregated turnover of $1 billion or less)

  • 50% fall in turnover (for an aggregated turnover of more than $1 billion)

  • 15% fall in turnover (for ACNC-registered charities other than universities and schools). 




Informations from ATO : https://www.ato.gov.au

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