Sage Construction & Real Estate

For some reason, since Oct 13 +- my 5-1-8-81 report doesn't agree with 5-2-1. For example, when an employee takes 8 hrs of sick time, report 5-1-8-81 shows 8 under the Sick Taken Column, and -8 under the Accrued column. This makes the total for the…

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.

An employee got a raise and the new paygroup worked for two weeks and on the third week it went back to the old paygroup. I'm at a loss as to why this would happen. Any ideas? thanks!

Did anyone else notice a change in the Federal Income Tax Withholdings after the latest update? I noticed starting around June 10th that the exact same salaried individuals had a FIT change and all deductions and liabilities are exactly the same. Doesn…

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…

Why is the OH_SUI tax prior quarter double the amount it should be for a new employee?

Is there a way to sequence several garnishments for one employee so one garnishment calculates after all others have been taken out of the employees net pay?

When releasing retention on a job, the AR module allows you to update the due date for invoices. This allows you to run aging reports with the retention showing in the correct column. However, when you "Release Payable Retention" there is no function…

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.…

Can I create a formula that will total budgets from certain cells (extended cost) that are above the line item where I want to total cost - as you can in excel. My goal is to create a contingency line in each bid such as the 6000 category. EX: total of…

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…

How can I calculate life insurance as taxable wages and part of the total gross wages that the 401K calculates? This would be the same for the employee match? For Example an employee makes $500.00 per week. Life Insurance is $11.31 per week. I need the…

I am hoping someone can help me with updating the workers' compensation (5-3-2) as this is something I have not done before. I am trying to figure out where the "liability" column numbers come from. I have chatted with Sage and they tell me I need to…

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…

Hi, We're using Sage 100 Contractor Canadian, version 22.4.27. I use 5-2-2 Payroll Records to create paycheques. There's 2 spots I could payout vacation: at the top in the box that says "Vacation Payout", or in the calculations tab where I have Vacation…

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…

Each employee made the same amount of money, worked the same hours, and each live in a resident county. I have checked the employee setup, all seems correct.

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…