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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…

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.

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,…

Hi, I'm currently new on sage especially payroll. I didn't notice that I have deducting one employee for medical and insurance plan. We are planning to give it back to the employee the whole amount but there's a deduction for CPP and EI. We thought about…

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?

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…

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…

Hi I need help with an error I made. I have an employee who turned18 in the summer and forgot to start collecting CPP from his paycheque. My accountant has informed me that as a result we owe the CPP that wasn't collected but that we can set up a loan…

So we are planning on renting a house from another company to be used as a staff house. We will then charge our employees a fraction of the cost of the rent and the company will pay the rest of the cost. Question: Do we count charging our employee rent…

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…

I received a cheque from the MRQ for a reimbursement of $236.04 regarding deductions at source (Taxes, RRQ, FSS, RQAP) for the 2018 tax year. How do I enter this in Simply Accounting? I guess I overpaid them. My fiscal year is June 1st to May 31st…

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?…

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…

I have been doing payroll for my father's business for 2 years. My brother and sister also work here along with other regular employees. I have been deducting EI from my sister, brother and my paycheques since Jan 1, 2014. How can I amend a T4 to change…

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…