The character b is used to indicate blanks. is alphanumeric both upper and lower case alphabetic characters and numeric AN – characters are acceptable and left justified and one byte per character. Characters not used must be blank filled. For example 10 STREET in a 20 character alphanumeric field would be reported as 10bFIRSTbSTREETbbbbb The character b is used to indicate blanks DT is a date in DDMMCCYY format. If the day or month components are less than 10, insert a leading zero. For example: 26 March 2017 would be reported as 26032017 9 November 2018 would be reported as 09112018 If the date is mandatory it must be a valid date, otherwise see date under the optional field type on the next page. N is numeric (0-9), one byte per digit. Numeric fields must be right justified and the character positions not used must be zero filled. For example, 123456789 in an 11 digit field would be reported as 00123456789. Field type codes used are: – M the value in a mandatory field that must be provided. For single character mandatory fields, a space is NOT a valid value. ALPHA: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled NUMERIC: field must not start with a blank and may be zero filled DATE: field must not be zero filled. O the data must be reported if available. If the data is not available: ALPHA: if not present, field must be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: if not present, field must be blank filled NUMERIC: if not present, field must be zero filled DATE: if not present, field must be zero filled. C a valid value that must be reported where specified conditions are met. S For use by the ATO. It must be blank filled. Field name a brief description of the field. –
The character b is used to indicate blanks. AN is alphanumeric – both upper and lower case alphabetic characters and numeric characters are acceptable and left justified and one byte per character. Characters not used must be blank filled. For example 10 STREET in a 20 character alphanumeric field would be reported as 10bFIRSTbSTREETbbbbb The character b is used to indicate blanks DT is a date in DDMMCCYY format. If the day or month components are less than 10, insert a leading zero. For example: 26 March 2017 would be reported as 26032017 9 November 2018 would be reported as 09112018 If the date is mandatory it must be a valid date, otherwise see date under the optional field type on the next page. N is numeric (0-9), one byte per digit. Numeric fields must be right justified and the character positions not used must be zero filled. For example, 123456789 in an 11 digit field would be reported as 00123456789. Field type – codes used are: M the value in a mandatory field that must be provided. For single character mandatory fields, a space is NOT a valid value. ALPHA: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled NUMERIC: field must not start with a blank and may be zero filled DATE: field must not be zero filled. O the data must be reported if available. If the data is not available: ALPHA: if not present, field must be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: if not present, field must be blank filled NUMERIC: if not present, field must be zero filled DATE: if not present, field must be zero filled. C a valid value that must be reported where specified conditions are met. S For use by the ATO. It must be blank filled. Field name – a brief description of the field.
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