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

I have an employee who wants absolutely no taxes taken out of their payroll check. (Federal and Wisconsin) Can someone please let me know what I need to do on the employee setup to get to this result? I put '0' in the Exemptions box but he's still getting…

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…

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…

I'm trying to create a formula to pull rates setup on the Pay Rates table in PR. The Fields I used are "Employee" and "Job". When i use the lookup function on a custom public formula to look up a rate from my table i get an error "Too many Parameters…

Within 300CRE, has anyone been able to successfully implement Puerto Rico withholding taxes when a Withholding Exemption Certificate with Form 499R-4.1 is claimed by the employee? I am wondering if the PRSWH tax formulas in Sage need updating to account…

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…

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?

In the deduction section, deduction amount but the lower amount (not the limit amount) was not taken on the first paycheck of the month. Why?

Dear Team , We have a scenario where for some vendors, some invoices appearing in open invoice register which is fully paid , Attaching screenshot for one vendor for your reference , similarly we have few vendors as well . Thanking in…

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…

Management would like to see our job cost transactions show payroll as a set $ amount per hour as agreed upon by each project owner. These set rates would vary between project. For example, project X would have a billable labor rate for Project Manager…

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…

Dear Team, We have noticed a strange issue in treatment of VAT. The VAT is calculated in AP correctly and reflected in VAT report as well. However, while posting in GL it has been split into two base accounts named 1601 and 1690. Below is an example…

NYS has a wage cap limitation. Currently the program will job cost Wrokers Comp to jobs in the order they are entered until Cap is reached. Remaining jobs get zero. Need it to prorate across all jobs up to the limitaion.

Does anyone have a report that tracks the employee retention tax credit (ERTC)?

I would like to prorate certified payroll fringes (setup as a Pay>Cash Fringe with the auto box checked) to jobs and cost codes based on the corresponding regular and OT entries. We have various reimbursements and allowances such as cell phone reimbursement…

Is Article ID 26573 in the knowledge base still applicable to set up HSA for direct deposit? Also, can I copy and paste the formula as shown in the article when I create the formula?

Is there a way to setup a payroll formula to set up a new Pay ID that adds a premium to regular rate for a shift differential? We do not want to add the shift column to our time entry since we use hh2 and it would cause changes in how we import time from…

I’m processing my first new employee under the 2020 W-4 form, and I cannot reconcile using the IRS tables to verify Sage’s calculation. Anyone see where I am going wrong? Single, $2000 for dependent, $860 taxable this week, state is NH (no income tax…

We are running Sage 18.4.1. We just went live a couple weeks ago and noticed something was off with our fringe calculations. In the Union set up the pays and fringes are set to total hours as the calc method. The fringes should be only calculated based…

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…

Our Federal Tax not calculating properly for payroll paid 01/03/2020. We have done the update 18.4.1 Update 2. Has anyone else seen this issue?