Payroll-Tax Risk Checker | SCALE · Nexus Practice Management

Your wages base

Payroll tax is state-based and can sweep in contractor and practitioner payments under ‘relevant contract’ rules. Enter rough annual figures.

Total employee wages incl. super ($/yr)

Payments to contractors / practitioners ($/yr)amounts that might be caught as ‘relevant contracts’

Your state / territorythresholds are approximate — confirm current

Contractor arrangements

A few questions that affect whether practitioner payments get counted.

Practitioners work mainly at your clinic?

Patients pay the clinic, and the clinic pays the practitioner?

Arrangements are regular & ongoing (not one-off)?

Your read

Estimated wages base

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Your state threshold (approx)

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Over / under threshold

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Arrangement risk

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Enter your figures to flag your exposure.

This is a flag, not a finding. Payroll tax and the medical/allied-health ‘relevant contracts’ rules are complex, contested and changing by state. Treat any ‘over threshold’ result as a prompt to get advice — now.

What I’ll raise with my accountant / adviser

This is Module 3 of SCALE

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SCALE shows you the payroll-tax trap, the structures that suit a group, and the questions to take to your advisers before it costs you.

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