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One business we do payroll for participates in HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan). Is there a way to set up a deduction code to automatically enter the appropriate contribution amounts each pay? Of note, HOOPP uses an "employee low" and "employee…

The NYS Paid Family Leave tax that was setup with this last update is not calculating properly. It does not factor in the cut off for the allowable weekly limit. The max allowable weekly earnings of $1,718.15..or $6.40 per week for a contribution in total…

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…

How would I set up a group life insurance policy for which the employer pays 100% of the premiums but get coverage in excess of $50,000? I'm mostly concerned about tracking the tax to the employees. Do I need to set up two different benefits - one that…

vacation pay stopped accruing and being paid out for a large number of employees but not all

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 have 2 deductions set up for Pension. One is for the Employee contribution, and one for the employer portion. Both are set to 5% (Percentage of Base). The employee portion is set to go to box 20 and 52, and the employer is set to go to 52 only. They…

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…

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…

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"?

Has anyone else had an issue with tax calculations on non periodic payments since the installation of the January tax table update? We have a client, that had used these types of payments for retro pay for a number of years, and always added that non…

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??!!