Sage 50 Canada

I have an employee who reached maximum on the first threshold of CPP - but the system didn't deduct anything from CPP2. If i create a pay for the next period, it starts deducting from CPP2. Should these deductions appear at the same time on the paycheque…

I have two employees that want an additional 20% income tax taken off each pay. I have been doing it manually, seeing the original calculation, calculating 20% of the gross, then adding it manually to the income tax field - ie, reg tax is 178.68 , 20…

Hello we are trying to do the first payroll of the year and we have one employee who is not getting any federal tax taken off his check. and all the employees cpp and ei is incorrect. We have updated to 2024.1. Is there an issue because we have checked…

We have an employee that was fairly recently hired and is 74 years old. She wants to contribute to the CPP but all the information I can find says contributions stop at age 70. Is it actually mandatory to stop contributing? The employee seems to think…

At the beginning of 2022 my computer crashed and I lost my data.I have one employee, I continued to do payroll without entering into Sage. I used the same amount from the last pay in Dec 2021. Forgetting he had maxed out his cpp and ei. So basically…

CPP is not being deducted off just one of our employee's paycheque. All other employees are fine. All the check marks appear where they should be for deductions. Has anyone encountered this problem?

Hi there! It is our year-end and I am switching from manual bookkeeping to Sage. We have residual 2020 vacation pay owed to employees. I have created employee records, but need to enter the historical amounts of vacation owed to each employee. I thought…

Our normal pay period is bimonthly (24 pay days) One person's payroll does not make sense because some periods, his pay stub is correct (march1-15, then 16-30) but some months, the pay stub is incorrect (april1-15, then 25-31). The bi-monthly salary…

I have an odd question that I have never run into before. In 2019 an employee that owns 100% of a company had EI deductions coming off of their payroll. Their accountant has asked to have their T4 amended to show that there were no EI deductions because…

Hello everyone! The organization I work for hired someone to fill a 1 year maternity replacement position. Typically staff would enroll in our RRSP plan and take advantage of our health benefit plan. In lieu of RRSP and health benefits I was asked to…

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the program or my data set? I have a payroll which includes a reimbursment income code. This is a true, non-taxable reimbursement - employees hand in actual receipts for expenditures made on behalf…

I am looking for assistance regarding an employee who is on unpaid leave and wishes to continue paying for her portion of company benefits (RRSP and Medical Benefits). I am wondering what is the best way to record the amount owing and still have the amounts…

Hi, We have a family company, and I want to include my brother as a salaried employee. He has another job, and pays into all the source deductions (that's his primary job), our family company is a secondary, part-time one for him. We live in Quebec…

I need to deduct money from my employee pay cheque for personal purchases on our company credit card. How do I do this? I am still new-er to accounting so any help is much appreciated! Thanks.

In December I installed the payroll updates for 2018 and changed the personal exemption to 11,809 federal 15,012 provincial and everything seemed fine. At the end of March I was sent another update from Sage which I installed and since then the amount…

Hi Is there a way to set up PRPP / VRSP other than Manulife? Sage 50 cdn, v2018.2 I would like to be with Desjardins, Thank for your help! Regards, Danielle

When I started here recently the payroll was already set up however on inspection I am wondering if some of it is right. I am not a payroll expert so I am unsure about the way the benefits and deductions are coming off. Here is how the benefits are…

Previously, access to more than 2 years of payroll reporting history was available. I find that 2 years of history is not enough without having to restore backups when reconciling payroll records. Specifically this is related to custom deductions. I…

1. An employee was given a cheque $178.56... as an advance that will come off of his next paycheck. I minus deductions from $184.00 to find $178.56 and write a cheque out manually from our cheque book. Was I right to minus deductions on this advance?…

I issued payroll cheques and forgot to post with the anticipation of starting the new year. I did print employee paystubs and now their YTD T4 amounts aren`t calculating correctly as I missed posting the very last pay period. How can I correct these amounts…

Taking over a client who entered payroll in GJ from the online CRA payroll calculator. The journal entries have wrong calculations (for income tax) and one employee was CPP maxed but she continued to post/deduct. When I am re-entering the information…

When have a employees go on Short Term Disability leave, I usually set up a payroll advance in the amount of their benefit premiums, union dues etc... to cover them for the time they are gone. When they return, it comes off their next paycheque. This…

When I print the ROE the Total insurable earnings does not match the Employee summary EL ins. earnings? I have tired to match the dates and spent countless hours trying to figure out why? Can anyone help?

Does anyone know how to pull a report that will show how an employee's deductions are set up? When I look at the Employee Summary, it only gives me YTD deductions. Thank you!