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turbohuffman
December 26, 2021
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Washington State PFML the RATE employees pay is 73.22% in 2022. It was 63.33% in 2021. How to update? Dropdown rate only offers 63.33%

  • December 26, 2021
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Best answer by AlcaeusF

Hello @turbohuffman,

 

Welcome to the Community. I can share some information about updating the state tax rate in QuickBooks Online.

 

As of now, there's no update for the new Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave rate in our system. It should be available soon from the dropdown when changing state tax rates.

 

In case you need the steps, here's how to update:

 

  1. Click the Gear icon in the upper-right corner and select Payroll Settings. 
  2. Go to the tax rate section.
  3. Next to Washington tax, select Edit ✎ to view your rates.
  4. To adjust the rate, next to WA Paid Family and Medical Leave Premium ER Rates select Change or add new rate.
  5. From the dropdown menu, choose the new rate and enter an Effective Date.
  6. Select OK to save.

 

Also, you can visit this link to learn how to edit your payroll account register in QuickBooks: Change your accounting preferences in QuickBooks Online Payroll.

 

Please know that I'm just a post away if you have any questions about the tax rates in QuickBooks. I'm always here to help.

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AlcaeusF
AlcaeusFAnswer
December 26, 2021

Hello @turbohuffman,

 

Welcome to the Community. I can share some information about updating the state tax rate in QuickBooks Online.

 

As of now, there's no update for the new Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave rate in our system. It should be available soon from the dropdown when changing state tax rates.

 

In case you need the steps, here's how to update:

 

  1. Click the Gear icon in the upper-right corner and select Payroll Settings. 
  2. Go to the tax rate section.
  3. Next to Washington tax, select Edit ✎ to view your rates.
  4. To adjust the rate, next to WA Paid Family and Medical Leave Premium ER Rates select Change or add new rate.
  5. From the dropdown menu, choose the new rate and enter an Effective Date.
  6. Select OK to save.

 

Also, you can visit this link to learn how to edit your payroll account register in QuickBooks: Change your accounting preferences in QuickBooks Online Payroll.

 

Please know that I'm just a post away if you have any questions about the tax rates in QuickBooks. I'm always here to help.

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TracyAFY
December 29, 2021

When is this going to be available? The overall rate also increased from .4% to .6% and that has not been updated. I'm working in both desktop and online and the overall rate can't be manually changed. I can change the employee portion on the desktop.

 

We are running 2022 payrolls now.

 

Thanks.

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    ShiellaGraceA
    December 29, 2021

    Thanks for joining us, @TracyAFY.

     

    As mentioned by my peer @AlcaeusF, we don't have a specific time frame yet as to when the new rate will be available in QuickBooks. You'll want to follow the above steps to change or add the new rate as a workaround.

     

    In the meantime, for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll, please make sure to get the latest tax table to sync any available payroll update to the program. Refer to this article for the instruction: Get the latest payroll tax table update.

     

    For QuickBooks Online Payroll, it'll be an automatic update.

     

    I'll be adding this link to help you manage your taxes: Year-end checklist for QuickBooks Online Payroll.

     

    Please don't hesitate to reply to this thread if you still have questions or concerns with payroll taxes. I'm more than willing to assist you. Take care and have a nice day ahead.

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    bookkeeperempire
    January 6, 2023

    This is a 2023 problem as well. We are now at 8%, but no update has been done to change the rate. This needs to be expedited.

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      LisaSV
      January 6, 2023

      Under Payroll Item List, we changed the PFML to the current tax rate of .8%.  Then for each employee, in Employee Center, double click on employee name, click on Payroll Info, click on Taxes, click on Other, scroll with button down to employee's portion of Family Leave, at bottom change percentage to current rate, as a percentage.  Click okay.

      It is a hassle to change each employee's percentage manually, but this is the only way we have found to do it.

       

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      turbohuffmanAuthor
      January 8, 2023

      Still unable to resolve this problem.

      Thanks LisaSV for posting instructions, but they don't align with what I am seeing in the QB Online version.  For example, don't see a Payroll Item List, Employee Center, employee's portion of Family Leave at bottom change percentage to current rate.  I can't even perform equivalent steps compared to the downloaded version that I assume you are looking at.

       

      Why can't the coders just update the software to list 0.8% as the drop-down like they did for the 2022 rate change when it went from 0.6333% to 0.7322?  In the Online version this is located in section Payroll Settings, Washington Tax, SUI setup, PFML dropdown list. 

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