• RRQ personne de plus de 70 ans

    J'ai une employée qui va avoir 80 ans cette année (en juillet 2024). Je vois que sur la dernière paie de décembre (versée le 28 décembre 2023) il n'y a pas eu de RRQ de retenue et depuis 2024 il n'y en a pas non plus. Je ne vois rien qui peut expliquer…
  • Payroll for a taxable living allowance

    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…
  • Additional percentage of income tax to be taken off paychq

    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…
  • Severance pay

    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…
  • 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…
  • Vacation Pay

    Hi all, Our owner has requested that he no longer accrue vacation pay. I have deselected "retain vacation" and set his vacation rate percentage to zero in the payroll ledger. When I process his pay statement, the "Vacation Paid" line for the period…
  • Payroll Question: Income tax deduction increases once the CPP & EI amounts are reached.

    I was wondering why the income tax amounts would increase after the CPP and EI max amounts had reached. Anyone have any ideas?
  • Employee Advances

    I have paid a few employees an advance, and I need to recover the advance. Is the advance deducted from the paycheque before or after taxes?
  • How to calculate average hours worked for Holiday pay & Sick Day pay in BC

    Hello, I am struggling with setting up / tracking average hours worked in a month to determine holiday pay and sick day payment amounts. Is there a specific report I can pull on average hours worked? I have played around with Entitlements setting…
  • Payroll Taxes

    When dealing with payroll, how accurate are the automated taxes? I use a spreadsheet as well to calculate payroll; CPP & EI are always accurate, but the taxes are always a little off compared to the T4032 tables I use - and I am using the 2023 Tables…
  • Payroll tax deductions

    Has anyone in Canada had an issue with provincial and federal tax deductions? My system is coming up short of the PDOC suggestions.
  • Sage 2023.1 Payroll Tax Calculation not matching PDOC

    Hi there, just downloaded and installed the Sage 2023.1 and running first payrolls of 2023. I alway double check the Sage amounts with PDOC https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/rhpd/beta/ng/entry to ensure the amounts match and usually they do (perhaps 1 cent…
  • Gratuitous Payments

    If an organization is eliminating a position and the employer offers a one-time gratuitous payment for 2 months salary do you use the bonus method for calculating source deductions (EI, CPP & Tax) or just calculate based on what the deductions would be…
  • Tracking Original Hire Date to Prompt for Vacation Increases

    It would be great if Sage would prompt when Employees have reached the time that their vacation pay increases from 4% to 6% etc. Currently there is no way to prompt the system to alert you when they have reached the time worked to increase the vacation…
  • Using Sage 50 Version 2021.2 CPP Maximum reached but Sage 50 is still calculating

    In previous versions when the max amount was reached for CPP Sage 50 indicated the employee had reached their max yearly amount and automatically stopped calculating. Version 2021.2 keeps on calculating CPP after the max yearly amount. Is there something…
  • Payroll Ledger Entitlements and Paid Sick Leave - please help, how to use this entitlement?

    We are expecting to have Paid Sick Leave in Ontario. Law enforcement will come after the parliament approval, but the premier had said Ontarions will get extra pay on top of Federal benefit. I am thinking it will be about the same as 2018 Jan -…
  • Group RRSP paid by employer

    We have a group RRSP plan and our employer contributes 50% and the employee contributes 50%. How do we set it up in Sage so that the employers amount is not taxable? We are currently showing it as part of our income and getting taxed on it. Can we set…
  • PAYROLL

    I am unable to use the option to calculate taxes automatically. I confirm that I have a service contract with payroll but it still will not auto calculate
  • CEWS!!! Manual calculation of wages and CPP/ EI

    We pay employees either monthly or semi monthly depending on their role. Does anyone know an easy way to calculate the CEWS weekly wages other than going back and manually figuring hours worked / to fit in the weekly dates required by CRA? I will also…
  • Bonus Tax Calculation

    How do you set up an income in Sage so that it uses the bonus method to calculate the taxes for a bonus paid to employees? Taxes need to be calculated differently than for regular income and I don't see a way to set this up. I've called Sage twice and…
  • Payroll

    How do you record payroll expenses in the period they were incurred? If the pay period end date is May 31st but the cheque date is Jun 6th, Sage records the expense on the pay date rather than the pay period end date. Our business uses accrual-based accounting…
  • Vacation earned

    I have encountered some issues with how the vacation was being calculated in Alberta for a company that I have recently taken over for. The vacation was being calculated after the RRSP and Benefit deductions were deducted from the earnings. In some cases…
  • 27 Pay periods in 2010

    Hi All, Next year has 27 pay periods for my company. When should I make the change in the system to set it to 27 pay periods from 26? My first payroll of the year is January 3 so I want to ensure that I have the right information set up for proper reporting…
  • BC EHT

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I have set up the new BC's EHT (Employee Health Tax) in Sage as per Sage instructions ID 14141 & ID 95030 in our company test file and when I input an employee payroll there is a EHT Expense & EHT Payable based on the 2.925% of Gross salary. The EHT has…
  • Unpaid Leave and Benefits

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    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…