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

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't clear or wasn't an option on the form https://twitter.com/waltonkate/status/1254570834066239489

So, I've just spent nearly an hour on hold to get through to the ATO. Indeed, I'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'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't for Kate's tweet (via Maeve's) I'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