SS wages different from W3 to total of 941s in 2020

Posted By bethbowers over 2 years ago

Have a client who was informed by the IRS that her SS wages on her W3 differed from her 941s by about 44K. My first thought was COVID, but they only paid about 13K in COVID wages. She has been through the W2s compared to the Quarterly Report YTD for each employee and can't find a difference.

I'm not sure where else to begin to look. Don't the W2s and 941s pull their information from the same file?

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bethbowers over 2 years ago +1

We found the employee who was the issue. It was a bonus check that was reversed and re-entered and the SS wages were incorrect on the re-entry. I am going to guess that the client entered the reversal…

kanes over 2 years ago

We had the same thing happen, only for SS and Medicare wages. Notice came from the SSA.. Problem was Sec 125 deductions from COVID wages.

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bethbowers over 2 years ago in reply to kanes

I wish that could be ours, but since they paid in total less COVID wages than it's off by, it doesn't seem to be the culprit.
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bethbowers over 2 years ago

We found the employee who was the issue. It was a bonus check that was reversed and re-entered and the SS wages were incorrect on the re-entry. I am going to guess that the client entered the reversal the old way instead of using the new reversal icon, but can't say positively.
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Wayne Schulz over 2 years ago

Wages may be incorrect if the legacy method of reversing a payroll check is used in Payroll 2.x

Not sure if this is the issue but here is a link to a Sage KB
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SS wages different from W3 to total of 941s in 2020

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Wages may be incorrect if the legacy method of reversing a payroll check is used in Payroll 2.x

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