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The Michigan Form 5080 needs to be updated to remove the banner and warning that it is for 2024 - when the heading and form has already been updated for 2025. You can see the correct form behind the banner - but you can not use it because of the Banner. Any idea when QuickBooks may correct the error?
When will the Q4 reports be available. They were available last year by this date. I am looking for my W3 Thanks
Why can't you customize the main payroll screen to include deductions and not just pay types in QBO? In the desktop version, when running payroll, you could access pay types and deductions from the same screen without having to individually go in and edit each paycheck for the deduction(s). (Most deductions in our payroll are not a fixed amount and must be manually entered each pay period. It seems like an oversight on the part of QBO to not be able to edit from the same screen if you choose, but rather have to individually edit each paycheck.)
We need someone who knows QB online Advanced to come to office and set up our payroll. We do job costing for our techs time. We only have 2 full time techs that need job costed for payroll. The rest are office employee's. Any recommendations please let me know. We are getting behind since Jan 1st. Please help as our CPA is not helpful with this. Thank you, Teresa P.
In the additional federal income tax withholding box, I tried to enter 20% instead of fixed dollar amount and it would not allow me to do so. Is it possible to withhold an additional 20% of federal income tax per the employee's request?
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how can i go back a year and look at last year's ROEs?currently I can only look at 2025 but I need to access last year's... thanks.
My company is in one of the few cities with a city tax and a resident income tax. An employee also lived in that city, but has moved so that they no longer owe a resident taxes. I changed their address in the 'Payroll->Employees' and then clicking on the employee. In the "Tax Withholdings" section under "Local Taxes" it has a checkbox next to the 'city, county' (actual names) where my company is located. There is no further breakdown for 'work tax' and 'resident tax' as I remember. The help says to click on "Edit Location", but there is no "Edit Location" on that page. Is this now set up automatically and the help has not been updated, or is there something else I need to do?
In mid-October QuickBooks Online made some sort of a change in how it handles Indiana Unemployment Tax. It then made payroll adjustments totaling $187.00 across every one of our payroll periods. Some appeared to be rounding error in calculations (0.01 - 0.02) but 12 of them are higher than $1.00, and a few are above $25.00. The problem has continued this year, with every payroll period having Payroll Adjustments of 0.01 - 0.02 (plus or minus). And because these adjustments are basically single-ended transactions you can only review or delete them. We have implemented the Locations feature in our business, and there is no way to specify a location for these adjustments. As a result they show up in a new "Not Specified" column and mess up EVERY SINGLE REPORT I have to do for our business. I have contacted Intuit multiple times. The first chat session took over an hour and all I got was that they needed to escalate it to a higher tech level. I was promised an update in a week. T
I dont understand why i cant add multiple time off policies. I would like to be able to add Vacation time regular time, Vacation time over time, Sick regular time and Sick over time. We work on a 45 hour work week. 9 Hours a day clocked in. If someone takes off the 1 day through out the week we subtract 8hr regular time and 1 hour over time from the 45 hours in the week giving us 32 hours regular time and 4 hours OT. Using 8 hours regular pay and 1 hour ot pay. With the policies currently i have no way of keeping track of the 5 overtime hours for the remaining balance without it only showing 36 hours of regular time pay while my employee has 32 hours regular time pay and 4 hours of OT actually left. Quick books desktop allowed this to happen. Why doesn't QuickBooks online, Super Frustrating that this cant be a simple ask to add. Example:Time off Policies:Vacation regular time = 40hrs @regular payVacation time OT = 5 hours @ time and halfSick/Personal regular Time =
I have to manually record 401k transactions manually (we don't use QB payroll). I have one liability account for all employee contributions, an expense account with the company contributions and the bank account I use to pay the provider. Is this correct?
The warning states:Create tax payment without an employer number?If you approve this payment without your CA Middle name, it may be rejected by the agency. Are you sure you want to make this payment now? I have never got a message like this so not sure what it is regarding
I have Desktop 2018. I found my account out of balance vs the month end reconciliation of 10-31-22 which was exactly what my bank balance statement was. I did an audit trail and nothing then checked the voided/deleted transactions and found that Admin deleted the very first check ever written by Quickbooks which was my paycheck from September 2018. Problem is I am the Admin, no one else uses QB, and to boot I was not even in the office on Nov 2 when the transaction took place. QB not only deleted the check but then added it back in to the payroll account. What I got looks like this:Deleted Transaction - amount is 0Changed Transaction - amount is xxxx.xxChanged Transaction - amount is xxxx.xxAdded Transaction - amount is xxxx.xx Amy account balance is now off in the amount of that check written in Sept 2018. How do I bring everything back into balance?
On Thursday, 2.13, I tried to setup four clients on QuickBooks Online Payroll. I get to the point to verify the test transactions and get an error message that the account cannot be verified. For the first client I called to see what the issue might be. The bank routing number, account, name on the account address, birthday, cell phone are all correct. After spending (3) hours with tech support I was told that the only solution would be for the client to try another business account. (Meaning open up another account to see if the problem persists. Not an option for any of my clients!). Today, I received emails from all four clients saying the test deposits had been made into their accounts. When I try to enter them into QBO payroll it does not give me the option of entering the test transactions and wants me to verify the bank account again. Has anyone had this issue?
We are starting 2024 with a Roth 401k from Guideline. All the deductions were automatically set up by them which was great. I just processed the first payroll of the year with these deductions and I noticed the Employee Roth 401k deductions shows up on the Payroll Summary as "Deductions from Gross Pay". I doubled checked each pay stub, and on each stub the Roth 401k deductions was under "Adjustments from Net Pay". So Why would this employee contributions be classified as two different things on the stub and payroll summary?? The Company Match looks to be fine and in the correct spot.
Last week I ran a 'test' and set up one of my employees for direct deposit to try it out. I did it on Wednesday for Friday's payday. She received the deposit on THURSDAY! Payday isn't until Friday, so I didn't think that was right, and actually she and some other employees said they don't want to get it early! I thought if payday was Friday, that's when it would be deposited. Did I do something wrong?
What is the date in February 2025 that Quickbooks is going to allow corrections to 1099s?
How to fix the automatic mileage tracker to log my mileage
I just realized I missed one contractor when I sent all our 1099s and submitted the 1096 form to the IRS. How do I add that contractor to the 1096 already submitted?
On the drop down list for coding pensions in the Enhanced Payroll program, IRS Code 401a is not an option as a qualified retirement plan.
Where does Workforce pull the address from for Employees to View the Check Stub? Currently showing the owners home address rather than the company address on employee check stubs.
I don't think we are coding our company health insurance premium payments correctly in QB Desktop. The values are set up correctly in QB payroll with a company portion and employee pre-tax deduction using the correct payroll accounts. The issue is, when making a payment to the Health Insurance provider, this is done outside of QB payroll in normal QB with a Write Check task. We are using a simple Expense account named "Insurance Expense: Medical/Health" when the check is written (actually its an ACH). So what happens is this causes our Payroll Liabilities to continuously increase on our balance sheet, I believe because the payment doesn't go against a payroll liability (which does not show up in Payroll Center, Pay Liabilities). What are we doing wrong, and do we need to get this account as a Liability to show up in Payroll Center? How to correct the previous transactions going back months, years?
