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(Listen to a discussion with Lee White, the Institute's General Manager for Leadership & Quality, on the topic of Standard Business Reporting.) 
 
The Federal Government Standard Business Reporting (SBR) group has recently updated its website for a number of initiatives. 
 
SBR fact sheets  
 
Three fact sheets dealing with:

  • SBR Program InBrief (an explanation of the project);
  • SBR Background InBrief (the project history); and
  • SBR Major Streams of Work InBrief (status report on the major project components)
have been updated and are now available on the website. 
 
They provide an overview of the status and progress of the SBR project which aims to simplify business-to-government reporting by making forms easier to understand, using accounting and record keeping software to automatically pre-fill government forms and introducing a single secure way to interact on-line with participating agencies. It is intended to be launched in July 2010 and is expected to reduce the costs of reporting financial information to government as well as help the business community to improve the quality of both internal and external reporting. 
 
SBR Software developers’ kit and taxonomies 
 
The SBR project continues to release online the documents, schemas, specifications, tools, and services that software developers can utilise to start developing their products in time for SBR’s 1 July 2010 implementation. 
 
The software developers' kit (SDK) release schedule has recently been updated and the following SDK components are now accessible online via the SDK page:
  • Activity statement (BAS) message implementation guide (MIG);
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  • State and territory payroll tax overview MIG;
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  • Taxonomies for OSR payroll tax periodic returns for NSW, WA and Vic; and
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  • Taxonomies for PAYG payment summaries for employment termination, superannuation income and superannuation lump sum
With the release of these additional components, the SDK now contains the key information that software developers need to commence implementing SBR and they are now encouraged to ensure their products and services are SBR-ready. 
 
The full taxonomy, called SBR Au Taxonomy (v2009 C r.1.0) is available on the SBR collaboration environment.  
 
More information is available in the software developers’ kit guide on the website, which summarises the components of the kit, describes its technical content, provides a list of reports impacted by the SBR programme and provides a checklist to help developers implement the changes. More information can be obtained by sending an email to SBR and/or asking questions at SBR workshops.