• Benefits entry

    Hi, How to post the journal entries for the paying the benefits statement to the benefits company at the beginning of the month the employee and employer portion is automatic out of the account. How to post the payroll entry with the employee deduction…
  • Adjusting CPP & EI Overpayments into Tax Deduction before Printing T4

    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…
  • WSIB rate change

    Is there a way to change all of the employees WSIB rate like the federal and provincial tax credits?
  • Garnishment - How to set up deduction from NET pay?

    I am pulling my hair out over this and hoping someone can help? I received a garnishment notice from Canada Revenue Agency (EI) where I am required to deduct regular instalments of 20% of his NET pay. I can't figure out how to do this - anything that…
  • Deduction Error in Payroll

    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…
  • Payroll deductions per hour

    Currently SAGE 50 has two options for payroll deductions 1. deductions based on a % and 2. deductions based on a set amount Please add in the ability to have deductions based on hours. It seems so simple to me, as it already exists for income. For…
  • Entering employee and employer remittances in sage 2020

    I use Ceridian as our payroll provider and am wondering what is the best way to enter employer and employee deductions in sage when entering in the payment to the payroll provider?
  • Rental Payroll Deduction

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    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…
  • Provincial income tax rates/percentages

    While the General Ledger configuration does and should follow the employer's tax table, it seems reasonable to expect that the income tax rate would follow the employee's province of residence - especially as it that is a required field chosen from a…
  • EI Exempt?

    I am creating my T4's for 2018 but I am unsure about one employee. From Jan.-June he was considered an employee, but then he purchased the company (100% of it) from the original owners and is now considered EI exempt. So from July forward I was not taking…
  • Employee used company materials, how to deduct from paychq?

    An employee used company materials and has asked me to just deduct it from paycheque. What's the best way to do this? Currently what I'm doing is making a purchase invoice to our company. (As if company purchased something from itself). I post…
  • Historical Payroll Deductions

    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…
  • Employee Payroll Advance

    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?…
  • Paycheque recurring entry anomaly in logic - EI amount being calculated

    Can someone confirm if latest version does the same? If I save a recurring paycheque for full-timer with manually calculated amounts in each of CPP, Tax, and EI (all 3 differ from what the program calculates) - it saves and recalls correctly all amounts…
  • Setting up benefit deductions

    Our business (ABC Mechanic) pays 50 percent of our employees benefits. Our Insurance provider is XYZ Insurance. In the past, I have just had an “account” called XYZ in deductions where I entered the employee’s portion of the deduction for benefits. I…
  • Payroll Advances

    We have one employee who receives an advance of 1500.00 each month. I think i have it set up properly however, when I create him his actual pay cheque at the end of the month and deduct the 1500.00 from his current pay it will not automatically calculate…