Sage 50 Canada

How do I enter extra income tax to be deducted for an employee?

Hello, I followed these instructions How to create a new income for severance pay with only income tax calculating on it (sage.com) to create severance pay line in payroll, however when I get to step 5 in part 1, I get a message that says "for the income…

I am trying to create a taxable mileage benefit for our employees, however, when I use the income type "Benefit" and enter mileage for payment on an employee's payment, it behaves as a non-receivable benefit. How do I change the set up so that Sage will…

In the Federal slot on an employee record, I entered the Basic Personal Amount. On the line underneath I had entered the same amount on the Other Indexed Amounts slot. If I take out the amount from the Other Indexed Amounts slots the tax paid is considerably…

Hello friend, 1. I filled about 2023 T4 and T4 summary. The T4 summary had difference $64520.95. I know I still owe CRA Nov and Dec 2023 remittance did not pay total $57832.45 but the amount is not matching the difference $645520.95. My question is…

New to Sage and we have employees now that are on salary. Under the employee - taxes - calculate CPP has been ticked, however Sage is not deducting CPP. What have i done wrong??

WSB/WSIB is set at 2.06% for each employees. However, WSB is not calculated on an taxable benefits (.e.g. Llife/ADD, RRSP etc.). The income items are set to a "benefit" type. Calculations for tax, CPP, and EI are correct but WSB is not calculated. Is…

When a payroll report is generated, a comment prints at the bottom of the report that says "Federal and Quebec Pensionable Earnings - not subject to annual maximum." CPP contributions are calculated correctly in Sage but the pensionable earnings amount…

Our Sage 50 system is calculating employer ei amounts based on gross earnings, employer cpp, employer eht and employer wcb. It should only be calculating based on gross earnings, how can we fix this as we are over remitting? It is calculating on full…

Hi, Has anyone set up payroll to pay fishermen? Can you explain how? Thanks

When I completing our weekly payroll this message appears after each entry The payroll formuals being used are valid for the periods of 1-1-23 to 12-31-23. Are you sure you want to continue with this transaction. I have entered the 2024 payroll tax…

I am hoping that someone can explain why Simply Accounting is taking off so much CPP & EI that I reach the maximum contribution in the first six months of the year rather than taking off 24 equal deductions on each of my pay cheques throughout the year…

If an employee reaches the threshold for CPP, will Sage automatically calculate the CCP2 at that point? Thank you

Why is payroll saying I have to do manual deductions as there are days in the previous 2023 year? It did'nt with the first pay (Jan 5th) of the year, why is it with the 2nd? this pay includes Dec 30/31

We are holding a specialized program for clients whereby they receive a living allowance of $80/day which is taxable. How do I set this up in Sage 50 premium accounting? I've tried to change the 'units' but it doesn't give me any other options. I've tried…

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…

Our church has one employee, the pastor. As a pastor, he gets to claim the clergy housing allowance, which allows him to deduct up to 1/3 of his salary before taxes for housing. This allowance is not recognized by Sage 50, so to create a paycheque for…

Hello, I must set up severance pay for an employee, I followed this article ( https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=221924950016814 ) but sage gives me the following message "for the incomes you have modified…

I have entered the information to calculate entitlements, however the program is not calculating based on the information entered. Nothing is calculating for these fields. In addition, I have entered some incomes as benefits and those are not showing…

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…

I have just noticed that this year, the system is calculating vacation pay on the EI Insurable Earning only vs the Gross Pay. I am located in Quebec and the calculation must be on the Gross. Why has this change occured in Sage50 this year?

Hello, We did the update today and when trying to do payroll, I noticed that EI and tax amounts are not correct compared to the online calculator. Another pay cheque only had the tax amount wrong. I am awaiting a call back from Sage but was wondering…

All of our employees would make over $25,000 taxable income, is there a way other than manually updating each employee to change the NS Basic Personal amount from the defaulted $11,481 to the amount of $8481? Thank you,

We track dollar value accruals for sick and banked overtime, to allocate to projects. Is there a way to set this up the same as how vacation is accrued?

I have a question about commission that at the end of my project i have to pay payroll employee add sales commission one percent Revenue to employee .this is a first time work with sage 50 and i need help. i really appreciate it to answer me.