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WA Paid Family and Medical Leave payroll items are not working properly

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December 26, 2018
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I am running a January payroll for a tiny client (just one employee) and the new item from Intuit for the WA Paid Family and Medical Leave deduction is not calculating correctly. The employee has a gross wage of $1805.00...their portion should be 63.33% of .4%...the deduction shows $.02 (cents) - my calculation comes to about $4.57. If I set up my own item in the Payroll List, I can get the right amount. But the payroll item sent by QBs isn't working properly. I am not using the Company item since it's not required for this particular business, but it's not working properly either.

I would say this an urgent matter since next week starts 2019.

QuickBooks Desktop

Best answer by kimatwork

OK - I figured it out. We are doing too much math. The percentage to enter in the employee's profile cell is 63.33% ...or less if the company is paying any portion of this amount. What a weird approach.

AlcaeusF

Thanks for reaching out to us here in the Community, @kimatwork.

I appreciate you for providing the complete details of your concern. I'm here to help make sure that the WA Paid Family and Medical Leave deduction will calculate correctly when running payroll in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).

To start off, let's try to run Payroll Updates in your QBDT. These updates will provide the most current and accurate rates and calculations for supported state and federal tax tables, payroll tax forms and e-file and payment options. Here's how:

1. Go to Employees menu at the top, then pick Get Payroll Updates on the drop-down.
2. Select Download Entire Payroll Update, then click the Update button.

Once done, create a dummy paycheck with the same date to see if the deduction is now calculating correctly. For your reference, you may also check out these articles for more information:

That should do it! But if you're still getting the same results, please let me know so I can get back to you right away. I want to make sure this is fix. Take care and have a good one.

J

jgforbes

I have experienced the same problem this morning. Very similar circumstances and also had a withholding result of 2 cents for the WA Family And Medical Leave withholding amount for an employee of ours (using a test payroll transaction).

There is an obvious problem as I used the .4% x .6333 or .25332% for this employee against a base of $1,923.08 and the result should have been $4.87.

Please relook at this ASAP as I need to do a 2019 payroll at the end of this week.

Thanks,

Jim

AlcaeusF

Hello there, @jgforbes.

Thanks for joining this thread and for trying over the steps that I've provided.

Since you're still having the same issue after running payroll updates, I'd suggest reaching out to our Payroll Support Team. They have the tools such as screen-sharing that can help double check why WA Paid Family and Medical Leave deduction is not calculating correctly.

Here's how to reach them:

1. Go to http://payroll.intuit.com/support/contact/.
2. Select your Payroll Subscription type.
3. Choose a topic.
4. Click on the View Contact Info button to get their contact number.

Please let me know how it goes after contacting them. Should you have any follow-up questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment below. I'm always here to help. Take care always!

J

jgforbes

I have the same issue with the calculation for the WA paid Family and Medical Leave act. My test employee's gross wages are $1,923.08 and the amount for the employee piece should be $4.87 ($1,923.08 x .4% x .6333). I am also seeing a result of 2 cents calculated for this withholding.

I did the payroll update again and am using tax table 21901 and the result is 2 cents again.

I have this employee and company tax on the payroll item list with no value, but the tax label is loaded for each employee and for my first employee I used the .25332% (.4% x .6333) for the employee piece of the tax. I didn't try the employee piece because we do not need to pay the employer portion.

Please look into this ASAP as time is running short to make this work.

Thanks,

Jim

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kimatworkAuthorAnswer

OK - I figured it out. We are doing too much math. The percentage to enter in the employee's profile cell is 63.33% ...or less if the company is paying any portion of this amount. What a weird approach.

AlcaeusF

Thanks for getting back to me, @kimatwork.

I'm glad to know that you already figured it out! As what my colleague @Rasa-LilaM mentioned, this kind of response will definitely help other customers who are also having the same issue.

Thanks for being a part of our QuickBooks family. You're always welcome to post here in the Community if you have any other concerns. Take care and have a great rest of the week!

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Hillyardbulldog

Hello,

I just started working with this company as the administrator and I've been tasked to look into FMLA requirements for our company. As we have a total of 15 employees, I've found that we are not required to sign up/participate with FMLA but rather the PFML. My question is at this point in the game, does QB already have these formulas implemented in within the employee section of the program where I can submit the percentage that needs to be taken out of the employee's paycheck? When utilizing QB to calculate the premiums from each employee and having those funds removed before each paycheck is sent out, I will still have to sign up with the state from the ESD webpage, correct?

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