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Client is reporting three employees had NEGATIVE SIT (-$500) calculated during a recent payroll processing. IA recently released a new W-4 form. Accounting required all employees to update their exemptions using the form. These three employees had LARGE…

I have updated Sage 50 Payroll to 20240101. The federal tax brackets were to change for 2024, but when I go process payroll for the new year the federal amounts for all employees have stayed the same as 2023. Spoke to support yesterday and all they said…

I have a payroll question related to fringes and employee IRA contributions. This is a simple IRA and is taken before taxes. I have the fringes set up as a benefit on the appropriate paygroups with an offset for each employee based on the benefits we…

We're seeking to improve and streamline our PTO tracking process for our biweekly employees. At present, these employees or their supervisors email me with the dates they took (or will take) PTO and the amount of hours (4 or 8). I then plug the hours…

Good Morning, I am new to the Sage Community about 4 months. I am evaluating the leave balances and accruals for all of our employees and I am having some concerns as to the set up. We have employees that earn 40 hours a year (new Hires) then after…

I just upgraded from Sage 2017 to 2019 along with payroll 2.20. Once converted, I was doing a trial payroll and noticed that my state tax is doubled. Anyone know the reason for this? Also, my check history report is saying no data even when I change the…

On the Calculations tab for an Employee (5-2-1) how do I specify that the Federal allowances specified on the employee's W-4 is "married but withhold at higher single rate"?

We pay PTO for vacation & sick days. I want to track sick days separately but still pay it from PTO. When I put in "Sick" at 8 hrs at $0.00 rate, the record won't save because of the zero rate. How, if possible, do I get around this?

There is an Effective Date for Worker's Comp but no Ending Date. So, the Effective Date really does you no good, because if you have the rates for this year, then add a second line for the NEW rates effective today, when you calculate WC, it doubles…

Do I just need to close my current month (December) first and download the service pack? Will the service pack change my w-2 numbers because of the new 2017 tax tables even if December is closed before it is downloaded? Can I still make changes to…

We have a City tax for employees who work within city limits. We use the Locale option to calculate this. It was recently discovered that if employees live in another state, the Locale does not allow the individual's state tax to calculate. We have several…

I have set up our payroll calculations. Under our state unemployment our rate is 2.4% and I have it set up that way however it is only calculating 1.8%.....HELP??!!