https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Police cars revolving light" aria-label="Emoji: Police cars revolving light"> SOLE TRADERS - important update. Via @waltonkate and @maevemarsden a glitch has emerged which seems to be catching many out - short thread https://twitter.com/staffo_sez/status/1252124793396097024">https://twitter.com/staffo_se...

Here is the tweet from @waltonkate that alerted me to the issue - if you are a sole trader you have zero employees, but this either wasn& #39;t clear or wasn& #39;t an option on the form https://twitter.com/waltonkate/status/1254570834066239489">https://twitter.com/waltonkat...

So, I& #39;ve just spent nearly an hour on hold to get through to the ATO. Indeed, I& #39;d put down "1" in the box for number of eligible employees. Kind woman on the phone told me this was catching many sole traders out. Good news is it didn& #39;t take long to sort once I got through

But query is whether there was a design flaw in the form in the first place. If it wasn& #39;t for Kate& #39;s tweet (via Maeve& #39;s) I& #39;d have been none the wiser - and might have been waiting for #JobKeeper payment for an extra month. Probably ATO needs to release a statement of some kind

And I should probably have tagged @ato_gov_au into this thread