Sage Construction & Real Estate

I would like to set up a new payID that will automatically process some payroll dollars based on the number of days worked....but it doesn't seem to be working the way my logic is thinking. What I "THINK" should work Set up a new PR Formula that…

On the W-4, if an employee puts in amounts for their dependents, let's say $4000 total for 2 children, where does that get entered in the Sage payroll setup? Would I enter that dollar amount in one of the sections under 'Use W-4' checkbox? Or is it not…

Anyone know how Sage plans on accomadating the updated Secure Act 2.0, especially the catch-up portion?

If I don't check the federal box or state box for employee taxes, does Sage automatically use federal withholdings.

Our HSA Deduction is set up to be pretax in the setup area (before Federal and SS). When we run our 941 Preparation Report, however, the amounts are not being reduced for HSA contributions (it is reducing by Health Insurance deductions but not HSA - both…

Our HSA Deduction is set up to be pretax in the setup area (before Federal and SS). When we run our 941 Preparation Report, however, the amounts are not being reduced for HSA contributions (it is reducing by Health Insurance deductions but not HSA - both…

I have an employee who is questioning what percentage that Sage is calculating versus what he thinks it should be based on the tax table. If I take his taxable wage per check annualized then he should have 24% withholding but Sage is calculating 18.7…

The federal withholding is not calculating on the certified wages. Any ideas what I need to do?

I am an Ohio contractor that needs to set up an IN county withholding. OH, KY and IN have state reciprocity so no need to have WH for state but IN county tax has not withholding reciprocity. In setting up the local tax I have Do I need to insert the…

I completed my year end payroll for 2022 yesterday. For the first payroll in 2023 Insurance deduction and merrit increase will take place. Can I update the insurnace deductions and merrit increase before closing out the 2022 payroll? If updated will these…

Is there a way to withhold school district tax and residence city tax for an employee?

I have a new pay category for our apprentices that needs to be taxed but I don't want vacation pay to calculate on it. How can I do that?

this payroll would only have taxes and 401k deduction withheld from the employees. Normally payroll is setup for direct deposit but with bonuses payroll we physically print a check.

We have the base rate and fringe set up per job for prevailing wage and the fringes for employee pay marked as required for certified pay as well as the hourly calculations entered in the payroll set up. However, the certified payroll shows that some…

The dues have changed, it used to be 4% of gross wages + .05 per hour. It is now 3.65% of: straight time hourly, total package multiplied by the number of all hours worked. Inclusive of: hourly wages (including overtime) Health & Welfare Pension…

Another indirect allocation question. We have always allocated based on a percentage of direct labor. This has worked great in the past as a subcontractor. The system does this automatically adding the set percentage to the direct labor hours worked.…

The system log has just recently began listing "new state for this employee" even though the box is checked on the employee setup "the federal status and personal exemptions will be use to calculate state taxes". Has anyone encountered this? All our work…

Employer Medicare Withholding not calculating for a new employee. All other calculations are correct. Was told this would self correct the next pay period but it is still zero.

I have an employee that is a resident of New York but is traveling and working in several states based on project location. He is requesting that we always withhold a flat amount for NY state withholdings regardless of where he works. What is the best…

I work in Payroll. An employee showed me their W-2's from 2020 and 2021. In round numbers, they made $42k in 2020 and $52k in 2021. Ever since they started here in early 2020, they have claimed Single, $8,000. In 2020, $2,500 was withheld for Federal…

When I set up our company's pay IDs for sick pay accrual and paid sick time, we checked the box "Retain YTD totals at close year" as instructed in the KB Article 107894. Now when I printed our month-end payroll reports for January 2022, the year to date…

We have 5 different pays set up for COVID pay based on the type. How can I combine all into one line on box 14?

When i use the calculator using the W-4 Amount, FWH seems to calculate a lot less to zero tax vs. when im using the Exemption number and im trying to understand why. Is there a special calculation when you use the amount? What is done behind the scene…

Our company pays for $100,000 for group term life insurance and $100,000 for accidental life insurance. I did not realize that the employee was responsible to pay taxes on the portion of life insurance above $50,000 that the employer pays. Is the employee…

I ran the tax update for last weeks payroll. Then I just did another download/update of taxes to get the updated 2022 FWH tables for this weeks payroll. Now when looking at Setup -> Taxes -> Tax Rates there seems to be formulas showing up for certain…