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LIC5371
March 22, 2023
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Washington State Sick Leave and L&I Compensation Payroll Items Can't Uncheck for Employment Security Payments

  • March 22, 2023
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Wow, I can't believe people have been complaining about being unable to uncheck a payroll item since 2020!!

This is costing Quickbook users a lot of money.

I was just audited by the state, and have been paying taxes on sick leave and L&I Compensation all along.  The auditor just told me this was incorrect (maybe some prior direction of WA State would have been helpful!).

Now I went in to correct this in my payroll item list, and it won't "uncheck" it. 

Worse than that, I come to the community for answers and it seems there are none!

It seems like a simple thing, let us uncheck so we can pay taxes correctly.

 

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    BigRedConsulting
    BigRedConsulting
    March 22, 2023

    Yes, QuickBooks has always done this, for at least that last 25 years or so.

     

    As I understand it the taxes are very small. You mention it cost you a lot of money. How much is a lot?

     

    In any case, going forward now that you know about it you can work around it by reducing the taxable wages for the tax at filing time and also paying less when you pay the tax and then adjusting the balance away.  Not ideal, but if it's costing you a lot of money, perhaps it's worth it.

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    LIC5371Author
    March 23, 2023

    Not terribly helpful.  I've used QB for 37 years, and sure, I can do the report by hand and take out all the stuff that doesn't need to be reported.  But then what's the point of QB?

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      PEITA-HTR
      October 15, 2024

      I totally agree with you. I have been trying to uncheck the sick time etc. in my state unemployment payroll item. why can't it be done?!

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