FAQ

Answer: The Tax Maintenance screen for each employee allows you to choose either Exempt or Active for each type of tax assigned to that employee.

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Answer: Use SWT for regular State Withholding and create a tax master (and a tax class) called SWT2 (no formula, use rate under supplemental).  Assign SWT2 to the employee and make SWT inactive.  CAUTION:  Be sure to assign only one SWT to each employee.

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Answer: Use FWT for regular Federal Withholding and create a tax master (and a tax class) called FWT2 (no formula, use rate under supplemental).  Assign FWT2 to the employee and make FWT inactive.  CAUTION:  Be sure to assign only one FWT to each employee.

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In the Maintain | Employee | Taxes screen: choose the SWT (state)  and then change the number of personal exemptions to 99.  Next enter the flat amount in the supplemental withholding field.  This can be done on the fly when entering transactions as long as the Calculate Taxes while entering the transactions is turned off.  Calculations can then be done after all postings are entered.

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In the Maintain | Employee | Taxes screen: choose FWT and then change the number of personal exemptions to 99.  Next, enter the flat amount in the supplemental withholding field.  This can be done on the fly when entering transactions as long as the Calculate Taxes while entering the transactions is turned off. Calculations can then be done after all postings are entered.

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Answer: Setup Pay Type Salary1 and Pay Type Salary2.  Assign both to the employee whose salary needs to be distributed into two different GL accounts.  Default amounts can be overridden at the time payroll is entered (posted).

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Answer: No, a check number cannot be used twice.  However, Direct Deposit assigns its own sequential numbers that do not interfere with the check numbers.

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Answer: From Payroll | Maintain | Taxes: choose Jurisdiction.  Enter “US” as the Jurisdiction ID, and then enter the Federal ID in the Employer ID field.

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Answer: Yes, in the Tax Jurisdiction screen there is a field called Employer ID.

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