Payroll WSIB Insurable earnings

Hello @Quinoa ,

I'm assuming you have your car allowance item set up as an allowance type and your WSIB item set up as a company contribution type, which is set to calculate a percentage of gross earnings as a payable to WSIB.

I'm with you on this one. It's obvious QBO is not including any allowance type items as part of gross earnings, which is dead wrong.  Why it is excluded from gross earnings is a complete mystery to me, especially since the allowance is included in Box 14 of the T4, indicating earnings, which should be part of gross earnings for the purposes of calculating percentages with contribution items.

Use the Gear Icon > Feedback to let QBO know this is an issue.  I will do it as well.  The more the merrier :)  In the meantime, if you want to continue to use an allowance type item, you'll have to manually calculate the amount on the car allowance and add it to the existing WSIB calculation made by the program.  Not what you wanted to hear, I know. But the good news it, you can do a workaround that will calculate your WSIB properly.

1. Re-name your existing Car Allowance allowance type item.
2. Un-check it in your employee's payroll info.
3. Add a new other earnings type.  Name it Car Allowance.  Enter amount.

This will be included in all gross earnings so your WSIB calculation on gross earnings will now be correct.

Good luck!

Good luck!