Online Payroll not exporting tax payment deductions from business checking account each payroll
At the beginning of October 2024 QuickBooks Online Payroll began to deduct payroll tax amounts from my business checking with each payroll instead of waiting until the tax payments were actually made. However, the amount deducted from the checking account is not included in the payroll information that is exported from Online Payroll to Desktop Enterprise in the form of an .iff file. 941/944 tax payments are typically made on the 15th of the month following the month the tax was incurred. As a result, the only way to reconcile my checking account is to manually add the deduction to the register. I contacted QB Support and was told that apparently they have no plans way to correct this problem. Furthermore, I suspect that when the tax payment is actually made and imported into my checking account register it will result in a "double dip" of the checking account which will again have to be manually corrected.
It is hard for me to believe the programmers at QB Online Payroll did not foresee this as a problem.