Action Items Were Reviewed in the Master Action Items List

Minutes SuperStream Standard Technical Committee (SSTC)

TITLE: SuperStream Technical Committee (SSTC)

VENUE: Australian Taxation Office – 52 Goulburn Street, Sydney Meeting Rooms – L19.710 & L19.711 Teleconference |Phone: 1800 888 453 | Access Pin: 81746019

EVENT DATE: Wednesday February 8 START:10:00 FINISH: 12:00 2017

CHAIR: Ty Winmill

CONTACT Louise Ison CONTACT 02 62164654 PHONE:

ATTENDEES: NAMES/SECTION Ty Winmill ATO Graham Dawson ATO Ian Colhoun ATO Chao Wang ATO Annette Thurbon ATO Michael Cooper ATO Shane Moore ATO Leo Cheung ATO Wendy Tse ATO Simon Cho ATO Chris Thorne ATO Damian Haslam ATO Francis Cox IFF Yong Zhang GBST Grant Doherty Westpac Gary Jacobs BT Financial Group John Kennedy CBA Group Jamie Hancock IFF/Australian Payroll Association Brett Hillier Pillar Matt Giuliano IQ Group, ASFA E-Commerce Group Joe Brasacchio Intunity/PWC Matt Rea Link Group Josef Bobinac ABSIA Rodney Bedser MLC Paul Larsen ASP Carmen Kearney Deloittes David Kerr NAB John Halls Superchoice Merin Bineesh Superchoice

APOLOGIES: Tracie Crowden, NAME/SECTION

NEXT MEETING: Teleconference Wednesday 22 February 2017

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AGENDA ITEM: 1 TOPIC: Welcome and acceptance of minutes

The minutes from December 2016 were accepted.

AGENDA ITEM: 2 TOPIC: Action Items

Action items were reviewed in the master action items list. AGENDA ITEM: 3 TOPIC: Services and Dashboard

Shane Moore updated the group on Services and Dashboard

The following key points were raised in discussion  The dashboard is now being used as one of the ATO’s key notification tools to advise the current status/performance of services.  Enhancements are continuously being loaded in to the dashboard, most recently the API functionality; in addition other services will be added to the dashboard.  The ATO is looking at FVS particularly at the usage of the service as it has matured since the initial implementation. The ATO is investigating irritants and will be working towards putting some change requests through to add additional robust processes around the services; a priority would be adding some new validation around certification value.  Shane asked the group, if we are looking at improvements what things would you like to see us do and what changes would you like to see in regards to the FVS services  John Halls queried, If the ATO is going to change the FVS API structures would you make them backwards compatible or would we need to do upgrades on our side to take advantage of the new features? Shane Moore responded that there would obviously be some updates required with any changes we make to a service however we would look to minimise to recertify or rebuild the full suite of services, we will try and minimise the cost as much as we can to reduce the impact.  Ty Winmill advised, in regards to the certification we were looking at making the validation on our end and we have been given priority by Executive to address any issues. Please provide feedback in the next week, we will collate and get them back out to the group to show priority on what we focus on.

Members noted the update

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AGENDA ITEM: 4 TOPIC: SBR2 Platform

Chris Thorne updated the group on SBR Platform

The following key points were raised in discussion:  The latest ATO outage was caused by changes made to the SAN  ATO systems are up and running again  The ATO has imitated work-arounds and hardening of the system, we are now at the capability and the service levels we were at before the outage

Members noted the update.

AGENDA ITEM: 5 TOPIC: Rollovers V2.0 Implementation update

Annette Thurbon updated the group on Rollover V2.0 implementation

The following key points were raised in discussion:  Rollovers is in BAU mode  From a B2B perspective at the end of last year 96% of industry was on-board we are now following up with the remainder.  Late last year there were a couple of issues on the B2B side we were looking at data technical messages that were going between industry and a couple of instances were reported, those issues have now been resolved.  From a G2B perspective at the end of last year we had 93% of industry that had completed their testing since then we have also done 2 successful USM runs. The outage impacted the time we had to complete our reconciliation, this has been resolved and all the money has been accounted for.  In December 2016 we did a PIR for Rollovers testing all the feedback from industry was around timeliness of communication and the process to support the testing process. We are now looking at different methods to keep in touch with industry on a regular basis  We will present key finding from the PIR to the SSTC group.

AGENDA ITEM: 6 TOPIC: Contributions V2 update

Annette Thurbon updated the group on Contributions V2

The following key points were raised in discussion:

 The time frame for contributions B2B 1st of May and G2B was the end of August however we have had feedback from the SSRG regarding the recommendation to align both of those dates  Feedback from the SSTC members would be appreciated as we need to understand any impacts if the decision was made to align the dates  Rodney Bedser raised an issue with the Gateway not being ready for interop testing, Annette responded that from a G2B perspective there is currently work being done with the Gateways to get them set up in EVTE3, for example connectivity and shakedown testing. In the next week test strategy and test approach will be sent to industry for the funds  The date that we deploy Contributions (start using the standard) will depend on the delivery of the performance improvement at this stage we are still looking at the 1st of May

AGENDA ITEM: 7 TOPIC: STP Paper to be distributed out of session

AGENDA ITEM: 8 TOPIC: MiX Paper to be distributed out of session

AGENDA ITEM: 9 TOPIC: Guidance Notes

Graham Dawson updated the group on Guidance Notes

The following key points were raised in discussion:  Guidance Notes there are three related to Contributions and Defined Benefits and the enhanced elements is close to being finalised and will be circulating at least three Guidance Notes shortly, there is a related one that summarises the use of other tuples  The Guidance Note summary sheet has been updated to highlight those that are still active, there are two other categories incorporated in one of the schedules or user guide and superseded where specifically superseded by another guidance note  In general we don’t have to time to analyse documents in detail during the SSTC meeting however we will send them out in advance so you have time to read and provide comments

AGENDA ITEM: 10 TOPIC: Questions for discussion

1. FVS enhancements (already discussed by Shane Moore under agenda item 3)

2. Difference in validation for family name (SuperTICK &SMAT2) -For SuperTICK there is a rule that family names cannot contain apostrophes or spaces. However SMAT2 does not have this rule for family names fields . Feedback from the group was that the rule for SuperTICK and SMAT 2 should align, by including this rule in SMAT 2. Graham advised that this will be processed as an enhancement for SMAT2 and discuss timeframes. 3. STIC1 and STIC2 – Error message profile has been raised internally from our reporting, we have identified data integrity issues in STIC1 and STIC2, and a best practice paper may be issued to address this raise visibility. AGENDA ITEM: 11 TOPIC: Other business

Compliance test (Ty Winmill) A gap has been identified since Compliance Test has ceased its certifications service for SuperStream. ATO received queries from a some of potential new entrants regarding certification and joining the network. There are several options ATO are looking at and will work towards putting a paper together. Discussions will be held at the SSRG also. Ty asked the group to share thoughts and provide input.

Continuous improvement committee (Ty Winmill) The continuous improvement committee has been established under the SSRG, and they will focus on business practice and how to mature the network and get better data quality. The committee will work closely with the SSTC. ATO will distribute the paper from SSRG that describes the makeup of the committee including the charter.

STIC3 Implementation (John Kennedy) A question was raised regarding an undocumented response from the ATO (GEN.OK) for SuperTICK3 service. Industry is keen to know what direction the ATO is going, i.e. is ATO changing documentation or changing response pattern. Shane Moore clarified that the ATO will change the documentation and keep the GEN.OK response for SuperTICK closed accounts. John Kennedy advised that they had already deployed the service. Annette Thurbon responded that 112 funds will be ready by the end of March for SuperTICK3 and 48 that will be ready by June. ATO is following up with 63 non responders to get a sense about readiness.

Contribution V2 B2B (John Kennedy) There is a service account defined for both CTR’s and MRR’s as version 2 and we are not developing version 2 for B2B contributions, that service action would have a negative impact. I have asked our ATO account manager if we are going to have that removed from the artefacts. They are in schedule 5.

Error Code management 1.3 (John Halls) In December a question was raised around Error Code Management v1.3 compliance date. Chao advised that in v1.3 the predominant change is for rollover version 2 implementation by Oct / Nov 2016. V1.3 was made as an interim version to support rollovers version 2 before the requirements for Contributions v2 was finalised. Though the v1.3 document was missing from

the SIPO website we recommend industry to use the v2.0 documentation, which corrected a few typo’s in v1.3 but its content for Rollover remains the same. . John Halls went on to say large funds not our customers not complying to the standard and that it is causing an operational impact. Ty advised that a separate conversation would need to happen; they should be picking up the error codes for Rollovers if it is published for 1.3. If funds aren’t using 1.3 for Rollovers ATO we will need to help them. (Funds sending responses, not complying with the standard)

EPF’s without destination USI (Paul Larsen) Paul to email Ty with more details.

Formatting issue with WPN’s coming out of the SBSCH (Paul Larsen) Paul to email Ty with more details.

Meeting closed at 11.55am

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