• Weekly Wage Withholding

    I have an employee where I now have to withhold 20% of their weekly gross payroll checks for the state. We have a Garnishment deduction set up, but I'm not sure how to use it, as I won't know the amount to withhold until I run their payroll check. Does…
  • 2024 Federal WH Not Calculating Correctly

    It appears federal withholding is not calculating correctly. Withholding amounts on salaried employees have increased substantially from last Friday (2023 pay date) to today (2024 pay date). If anything, withholding amounts should have slightly decreased…
  • Setting up a state tax deduction to always calculate

    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…
  • Federal 2021 Tax Tables

    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…
  • Fringe benefits and before tax IRA

    I have a payroll question related to fringes and employee IRA contributions. This is a simple IRA and is taken before taxes. I have the fringes set up as a benefit on the appropriate paygroups with an offset for each employee based on the benefits we…
  • Wokers' Compensation Calculations

    Does anyone happen to know the 'behind the scenes' math for the 5-3-2 Workers' Compensation table window? I need to know how to set it up for the most accurate job/employee costing. For example does the Liability column calculation run after the Employer…
  • PTO Accrual: Limits and carryover

    Good Morning, I am new to the Sage Community about 4 months. I am evaluating the leave balances and accruals for all of our employees and I am having some concerns as to the set up. We have employees that earn 40 hours a year (new Hires) then after…
  • "Turn off" state tax for employer and employees (For NJ SDI)

    Hello all and happy new year! We are a New Jersey employer that has decided to opt out of the state sponsored SDI (TDI) plan and go with a private insurer (due to the cost savings to our company as well as our employees), effective 1/1/2020. I'm looking…
  • Payroll

    ok so we processed our payroll and printed our checks and posted the checks. I looked at our prinout and noticed that no ones union deductions were deducted. Come to find out when we processed our checks we did not check mark "weekly" Do we have to…
  • Federal Income Tax allowance

    On the Calculations tab for an Employee (5-2-1) how do I specify that the Federal allowances specified on the employee's W-4 is "married but withhold at higher single rate"?
  • Subtotals in AP (Select Invoices to Pay)

    When I go in AP to set invoices up for payment ... AP - Tasks - Select Invoices to Pay - On Screen List. Is there a way to show subtotals for each of the vendors / suppliers I am paying? I do see that I can go in and view the total (by going into…
  • State Withholding

    What have other companies done to setup reciprocal state withholding? This becomes an issue only when the primary state withholding is higher than the withholding in the state for the construction project. Connecticut is our primary (HQ) state. …
  • Is it possible to alter labor hours using a calculation without changing the takeoff unit to hours in Estimating Extended?

    I want to add a calculation in my assembly that will change the labor hours behind the scenes. My takeoff unit is EA and I don't want to change that. For example: If I have a qty of 10, I want my labor hours to be unaffected. If I have a qty of…
  • How do I make a new payroll formula based on a percentage of gross pay?

    I need to first compare 15% of Gross Pay to a flat amount of $114.75. If 15% of Gross Pay is greater than $114.75, then use $114.75. If 15% of Gross Pay is less than or equal to $114.75, then use 15% of Gross Pay. Here is the formula I have so far that…