Sage 50 Canada

A new company I am working on was told by CRA to continue deducting CPP & EI from employees even after they had reached the yearly maximums. I have been directed to shift these overpayment amounts into Income tax deducted before printing the T4s. What…

First year using Sage 50 Payroll. Previously I have only ever manually added the auto benefit directly on the employee's T4. It doesn't appear I can do that with Sage. After reading a couple discussions, it looks as though I need to add Auto benefit as…

Ran a pay period with the new update, should have counted as december 2023 but instead put it into the new year so there are deductions that shouldnt have been on there and cpp.

How do we add taxable benefit before submitting T4?

The system is operating on the 2024 version, but I still have 2023 payroll to enter. I need to get these entries in, but it's now saying I need to enter them manually. How can I enter the 2023 payroll without entering it manually? Since I am new to payroll…

I track employee entitlements - vacation and sick days, and OT hours. I adjusted a previous paycheque, to correct an entitlement entry, then realized that employee had another entitlement change. When trying to adjust that employee's paycheque again,…

There was a discrepancy on my T4's and I had to pay the difference to the CRA. How do I enter that payment into sage? What account do I post it to?

My starting balance is incorrect in my remittance summary. I tried to adjust the payments part so it would zero it out but it didn't clear it out. How can I get it removed or adjusted?

Hello, We are going through our 2022 T4s and realized that we were not including a taxable benefit on the employee's pay cheque. We created the taxable benefit in Sage however we are unable to adjust the last pay in 2022 as the pay code does not show…

Hi Everyone, Hoping someone here can help put my mind at ease on what I believe I need to do. I have discovered that two employees should have had their vacation accrual % increase as of last September. I know to do this I simply need to correct the…

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 all, I'm wondering if I can get some guidance on what things I need to check before I issue T4s in Sage 50? I haven't done it before and there is no instructions from the previous person in my position. I want to ensure that everything goes as smoothly…

I work with Sage 50 Canadian Edition 2019.2 I have two paychecks that were posted in January with the wrong amounts. CRA remittance was paid based on these wrong figures. I need to correct in order to reconcile the account and do not know how to post…

A client's accountant posted their AJEs. One of them was a $16,000.00 bonus to the shareholder. The accountant's AJE was CR CPP Payable $1,237.50, CR S/H loan $15,381.25, DR Wages $16,000.00 and DR CPP Exp $618.75. Their year end was July 31, 2016 so…

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…

WCB rate got changed during the year. The WCB payable account now shows $21 more then actual liability, which I've calculated based on the current rate. Did not realize it until now when verified it with WCB. How can I adjust the WCB payable account to…

When I set up a casual employee in payroll, I forgot to put the percentage amount in for their vacation pay. We then owed them vacation for two pay periods so, on the next pay period, I entered the correct percentage in the settings and changed them from…

Hi all, Just finished submitting my payroll info for direct deposit, and noticed an error when doing my reports. I deducted too much for union dues from one employee. I contacted the union, and they said to forward them the correct amount, and make…

I am using Sage 50 pro accounting. 2014 year. I entered the payroll information and when I was checking my Accounts saw a huge amount of money in Account 5410, so when I checked I discovered the payroll went into 5410( promo. meals and travel) instead…

Hi All, I went to file my income tax and the program will not save the T4 because Box 24, EI Insurable Earnings is higher than Box 14, Employment Income. I do not understand how my boss managed to get that discrepancy. I called Sage Tech Support and…