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Hello, We have an arrangement where our employees are paid/reimbursed their portion off CPP every pay period. We are not able to continue this with CPP2. We've created the income account and linked them but the line item does not show on the employee…

What is the difference between running a payroll report by period end date and running it by check date?

How do you eliminate State Income Tax from the Calculations? Our State eliminated the Income Tax many years ago, although politicians spent hundreds of billions of dollars and now want to re-institute it. Sage automatically creates State Income Tax…

I have an employee who's check is processed but will not print. It's a $0 check because it's all going to 401K but it should still complete the payroll process.

We posted a payroll entry that wasn't balanced. From looking at it, it appears that we used an earnings code that wasn't liked to a GL account and now the trial balance is unbalanced. I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this and see how they…

Hi, How to post the journal entries for the paying the benefits statement to the benefits company at the beginning of the month the employee and employer portion is automatic out of the account. How to post the payroll entry with the employee deduction…

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…

I am considering purchasing Sage 50 from Amazon for my business. We are a contractor / manufacturing business and I had used Quickbooks for 15 + years and they no longer have the version that I was using, and there new version is extremely costly. I…

Extra state withholding will not work. Shows on employee field, but will not take out. This started after last tax update. How do I fix?

After rolling forward to a new year an employee suddenly had a payroll advance show up that was never issued and we can't figure out where it came from. The Employee Detail Report shows no advances ever being issued and the amount is very odd. The balance…

We book payroll by journal entry BUT I'm wanting to post the hours from a timecard - no dollars - nothing to the GL - only total hours to the jobs/work orders listed on the timecard. Is this possible?

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…

I am in the process of setting up Payroll in a new company. We already have payroll set up in another company and are trying to recreate their settings in the new one. I tried using import/export, but for various reasons 98% of the information wouldn…

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…

Is it possible to setup multiple direct deposits for one employee?

We have 5 pay types - regular, OT, incentive, holiday, and vacation. The current formula I am using, from the first January update, only taxed the regular pay, and I noticed too late that it was only taxing the regular pay and nothing else. I was hoping…

I understand that CPP2 isn't supposed to kick in until the regular maximum is reached, but I have a case where it has already starting taking CPP2 for an employee even though it's only February and he only has ~$12,000 in earnings so far. Other employees…

A new company I am working on was told by CRA to continue deducting CPP & EI from employees even after they had reached the yearly maximums. I have been directed to shift these overpayment amounts into Income tax deducted before printing the T4s. What…

I have a new to me client. They have recently recreated the file I am now working in. It is not in history mode. They now want me to do the payroll that was being outsourced before. I have a file for the payroll from the company that was doing it. How…

can I still close January while the payroll entries for February are processed but still in the new file?

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…

First year using Sage 50 Payroll. Previously I have only ever manually added the auto benefit directly on the employee's T4. It doesn't appear I can do that with Sage. After reading a couple discussions, it looks as though I need to add Auto benefit as…

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…

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…