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  • 2024 Federal Tax Bracket Update

    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…
  • 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…
  • Fringe benefits and before tax IRA

    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…
  • WA State PFML

    This tax is paid on WA hours worked by WA employees. I cannot get it to calculate that way. It calculates on all hours worked. Even the hours worked in Oregon, which do not have to be included. How do I set this up? After many hours with support, the…
  • PTO Accrual: Limits and carryover

    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…
  • Federal Income Tax allowance

    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"?
  • 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 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…
  • Can I run my 2017 payroll before w-2's are complete?

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    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…
  • adding pay code

    Is there a mechanism that you can enter a new earning code to all employees instead of one at a time thanks
  • Payroll Locale should not be Tied to State

    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…
  • Payroll Calculations

    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??!!
  • 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…