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When running payroll, our employer EI and CPP do not expense to an expense account. Why would this occur?

Hi, have never used the payroll function in sage for very long. I want to confirm how to deal with the payroll entries specifically with relation to benefits. I cannot find an answer. We enter the paycheck into Sage and then we pay it online manually…

There is a small amount of CPP EI and TX that were accumulated in error in the first week of January due to the way that I had to transpose the paycheques from one payroll file into the current Sage 50 Canada file. How do I best remove this, without attributing…

Ran a pay period with the new update, should have counted as december 2023 but instead put it into the new year so there are deductions that shouldnt have been on there and cpp.

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 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…

Is there any information on how the new CPP contributions will be in the system for 2024?

In the other Payroll Reports you can select employees so that you can report, for example, on employees in a specific payroll account, but in the Remittances Detail/Summary report you cannot, and this makes it difficult to print an accurate report for…

At the beginning of 2022 my computer crashed and I lost my data.I have one employee, I continued to do payroll without entering into Sage. I used the same amount from the last pay in Dec 2021. Forgetting he had maxed out his cpp and ei. So basically…

Simple IRA deduction is over the allowed amount by $200 for the last paycheck of 2022. I've already closed the year. How can I correct this?

Looking for a way to or find a modification for creating payroll deduction based on % of Gross less Medical Insurance and cafeteria plan (FSA). Anyone experienced this request before?

I started paying out vacation pay on each cheque for a select group of employees recently and now the custom deductions for our union are not calculating correctly. I have checked and re-checked my deduction settings and can't see anything wrong. I now…

I'm reviewing the PIER report for my company and I'm discovering that many of the employees have higher pensionable earnings than their insurable earnings. It's not a large difference, nor is it consistently the same for all employees, there are no benefits…

So we are planning on renting a house from another company to be used as a staff house. We will then charge our employees a fraction of the cost of the rent and the company will pay the rest of the cost. Question: Do we count charging our employee rent…

Does anyone know why Sage 50 would be deducting slightly more income tax on our current payroll? Each person is paying a few dollars more as of the first July payroll. Ted

This is so disappointing to me what Sage has done with the Payroll Module. I will have a very hard time recommending Sage to my clients, I have my own business in bookkeeping and have many clients who ask me who they should use for an accounting program…

I am new at setting up payroll, I am used to only maintaining pre set up Company. How do I set up Provincial and Federal tax payroll deductions so they are going to correct accounts?? I tried and when I go to pay remittance the federal tax is incorrect…

The PIER report is verified and showing that the employer has not deducted enough CPP or EI. If the bank is already reconciled for the year (Dec. 31 calendar year end), how can I remit the short deductions in the new calendar with out affecting the bank…

New to Sage 50 Canadian Edition, formerly used QB Pro. When processing payroll, the program is not automatically calculating EI, CPP, Fed Taxes, even with historic amounts added. What am I doing wrong? Aroma Meze