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Rochelley
January 22, 2021
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Why do PD7A Earnings not include taxable benefits?

  • January 22, 2021
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CRA clearly states:

 

Current source deductions remittance voucher – Form PD7A

 

Gross payroll in remitting period (dollars only): enter the total of all remuneration that you paid before you made any deductions such as income tax. Include regular wages, commissions, overtime pay, paid leave, taxable benefits and allowances, piecework payments, and special payments. This is the monthly amount that you will include in box 14, T4 employment income, on your employees’ T4 slips. (italics mine)

 

To me this is pretty clear . . . what earnings you report on the PD7A remittances ultimately must match the T4 Summary.  I have been using QB Desktop since the early 1990's, and I have yet to see the PD7A report include taxable benefits.  As a result, I have been making my own PD7A in Excel, and producing reports out of Desktop to capture the taxable benefits and allowances included in each payroll, so I can report the accurate amount of earnings for each remittance period.

 

I think my question is obvious . . . why?  Why have earnings on the PD7A report NEVER matched earnings on the T4 Summary?  If I could, I would use the T4 Summary for remittances, but you can't choose any other date periods than a complete year which is very frustrating.  QB Desktop gets a lot of things right . . . more right than QBO, . . . but this, unfortunately, is not one of them.  Giving a shout out to @LauraAB . . . can you comment?

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    CaitlinOG
    January 23, 2021

    Hello Rochelley,

     

    I can definitely see where you're coming from with this, as it's crucial for your remittances to the Canada Revenue Agency to be complete and accurate. QuickBooks Desktop strives to provide customers with the best accounting software available, and we're always happy to hear what you'd like to see added or altered in the program. I recommend submitting some Feedback to our product development team on this, as they use the feedback sent to them from customers when planning future features and enhancements. To submit feedback from within QuickBooks Desktop, navigate to the Help menu, then select Send feedback online. From there, follow the prompts to submit your comments to our team. 

     

    Have a great weekend! 

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      GStew
      April 3, 2021

      Hi. This has puzzled me as well...how can this be? I agree the payroll reporting on the PD7 report must be accurate. Seems like such a simple yet critical fix. Has there been any further resolution on this? thx.

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        JamesM4
        April 5, 2021

        Hi GStewart. Your feedback on this is valuable and it's vital your voice is heard. While there hasn't been an update on this yet, I encourage you to also send feedback to our engineers by clicking the Gear icon and looking for Feedback. New product ideas and improvements are largely based on the feedback we get from users like you. Let me know if you have other questions. 

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        GStew
        April 5, 2021

        James, where is the Gear icon you refer to in this thread? thx.

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