Taxes

Hello QuickBooks Community,I’m looking for some insight on properly handling St. Louis City’s 1% Earnings Tax for employees who occasionally work within the city limits.Our business and employees are located outside St. Louis City, but when work is performed inside city limits, we are required to withhold the 1% earnings tax for the wages earned there. Here's how we currently manage it in QuickBooks:Tracking City Wages:All employees are hourly.Work done inside St. Louis City is tracked separately and assigned its own pay type ("City Wages").Withholding the 1% Earnings Tax:We created a St. Louis City Earnings Tax Deduction (set up as Other Deduction - Other Tax Deductions).The tax amount is manually calculated since QB doesn’t seem to allow deductions to apply only to specific wage types.The Problem:This setup works fine—until it’s time to generate W-2s. Since the tax is recorded as an "Other Deduction" rather than a recognized local tax, it does not appear in Box 19 on the W-2, which i

Has anyone else had issues with the 941 payments not appearing in to pay in the payroll tax center after payroll has been processed?    

I filled 1099 forms for all of my contractors. QBO was supposed to email them their forms. Not a single contractor has been able to access their 1099s via the link that QBO sent them. They keep getting a notice that says there are no forms available. This is not okay. Seems like there might some extra step they have to take...and that is also NOT OKAY. Please fix this so they can access their tax forms and so that we can remain compliant. 

Hello, We recently hired our first employee on 11/1/2024 and finished our first quarter of payroll taxes.  We are set up for this to all be automated for our Federal, Minnesota State, and Unemployement filings. Through this process we found that the Minnesota State filing is quarterly, but we need to make monthly payments (deposits).  At the end of the quarter, the filing must match the deposits. We made our State filing with a manual payment in the full amount that was due.  On the payroll side in QBO, it found this payment as a manual payment and I was able to mark it as "Paid".  On the Banking Transaction side, it created a transaction for review and to assign to an account. My questions are:1) with the payroll side being marked as "Paid", it appears that it has moved this amount out of our liabilities account so it has already recorded this payment transaction, am I thinking of this correctly? 2) If I assign and confirm the bank transact

Rhode Island collects three kinds of payroll taxes as "Employer Taxes" -- UI, JDF, and TDI. The first two are paid by the employer and rates can vary company to company. This question is NOT about those. TDI, on the other hand, while technically a tax paid by the employee, is also collected as part of the Employer Tax payroll taxes and filed/paid quarterly by the employer, is a single rate for every company. This rate was previously 1.2% and for 2025 will now be 1.3%. Quickbooks Online Payroll is supposed to update this automatically. This is no place in the user interface for me to update this and it's a universal change that should be applied to all companies with Rhode Island employees anyway.I need to run payroll for January and this rate is still showing the old 1.2%. I have tried talking to Quickbooks customer service reps multiple times and they never seem to understand the question and never can get me a straight answer other than to be patient. This is absurd; the rate ch

Hi!I have a business PayPal account. One of my husband's clients wanted to pay an invoice with PayPal while away from home. (I'm a partner in the contracting company)  So, I said yes and accepted the payment. Over 10k in 2 transfers. (The PayPal transaction was deposited into a personal checking account. )Then I Deposited this into the Construction company as a contribution to the business checking,  from me.Then I posted the payment received for the invoice she was billed. It seemed clean.When I got a 1099 for ME, now, this looks like my personal consulting company income. I am not sure what to do. I will not have much income otherwise to show for the semi inactive consulting biz.In a sense the 1099 is just information, and I did the accounting in the contracting business books correctly, I think.Q:: ANYONE have any idea if I must ask for a correction, or do something additional? The PayPal transaction was deposited into a personal checking account. (I normally summariz

What is the best tool or method for me to prepare my 1040 tax form that incorporates my Quickbooks online data? In the past I've used Turbotax but had a nightmare importing my Quickboooks online data. I had to export my Quickbooks online data to desktop Quickbooks and use desktop Turbotax. Is there a better way? I see that Quickbooks online has a tax section. Can I do my entire 1040 filing from here, importing W2s and all my other tax forms and skip Turbotax altogether?

When performing an electronic filing of my 1099s, the Recipients and Totals look perfect in terms of the data to be included in the 1099 forms.  And when I look at the summary report for the MISC and NEC filed reports, the amounts are shown perfectly in the reports.  However, when I view the downloaded 1099s that were filed, Box 1 (Nonemployee compensation) is completely blank for all the 1099s.  Are the mailed 1099s going to be correct and these are missing only online?

I use Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions Desktop and process our payroll with the Quickbooks Enhanced for two separate companies.  On 9/30 when paying our semiweekly 941 taxes via EFTPS online, I made one payroll tax payment payment that was correct.  Then I made an additional payment of $8775.24 on the same day thinking I had opened up the other company's EFTPS but I didn't, essentially I overpaid the 3rd Qtr 941 taxes by $8,775.24.  I noticed this error before the Form 941 for 3rd Qtr was filed and I reported the overpayment on Line 15 and checked the box to apply to the next return.  On 9/30 I first entered the $8775.24 liability check by Create Custom Liability Payments.  Then I entered a second liability check, the same way, for the correct liability tax payment so that it would show the 3rd qtr overpayment of tax.  When we entered into 4th Qtr, on the first federal tax payment/payroll processing I short paid the federal tax liability EFTPS payment on 10

Using Desktop Premier Plus Contractors 2022.  We have a payroll subscription and prepare weekly payroll in house with do it your self payroll.Decades user here.  Always print and mail my 1099s/1096 myself.   With the new e-file mandate, is efile available to me?  I still want to print and mail my 1099s, I just want to know if I have the ability to efile with the IRS through QB?  Unfortunately I delayed signing up on the free IRIS portal through the IRS and it is a 45 day approval process.  I have searched here for posts about it but there is nothing current, and I am seeing mixed information about it being free or not and also whether or not QB mails the 1099s to my subs, which I do not want.  I just need to IRS efile this year only, I will do it myself directly with IRS in future years.  

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP. HOLY SH*T I CAN'T CONTACT ANYONE AT QB OR INTUIT. THE AI CHATBOT KEEPS SAYING "The help channels are closed" ????? WHY? I select chat with a human and it responds with that, even though hours listed online show this is definitely open. I'm beyond angry. From what I see on my bank account Intuit is now taking DOUBLE the taxes out of my account. Once along with the payroll + more payments to the IRS. WTF IS GOING ON. I plan to cancel this within the next week if there is no solution... customer service is nonexistent.

Hello, I need to access some tax forms from many months ago that were not filed through Quickbooks Online. They were also not archived. And now I can't find those forms anywhere in Quickbooks. Some back story: in December 2024 I needed to access the IL-941 form for Q4 of 2023 and Q1 of 2024. I called Quickbooks customer service, and the employee was able to help me access these forms by first marking those taxes as paid, and then I think she did something else which then made the forms show up in the archive, which is exactly what I wanted. So, now I am in a similar situation except that I need to access old WT-6 forms, which is the Wisconsin equivalent of the IL-941. I need the WT-6 form for Quarters 2, 3 and 4 of 2024. I did not file them through Quickbooks Online, nor did I archive them, and now they are nowhere to be found in Quickbooks Online. I called Quickbooks customer service a few days ago, thinking that this would be easily resolved like last time, but I spent

i have QBO and have submitted 1099 for my vendors about a week ago. The recipient copy indicates "mailed". the status indicates "accepted".  Does it mean QBO sent copy to each of my vendors and each of 1099 is accepted by IRS. ??

Our business does both sales and rentals. Sales tax is due on sale items by the 20th of the month following the month in which the sale was made, regardless of when payment is collected. Sales tax on rentals is not due until the 20th of the month following the month in which the payment is actually collected. Is there a way to obtain separate sales tax reports for sales and rentals in Quickbooks desktop so we can report sales on the accrual basis and rentals on the cash basis? Thank you

We have been utilizing quickbooks desktop for the past 10 years, but they have made it so we had no other choice but to transfer to QB online, which is a subpar program at best. When i went to print my W2's to mail they were incorrect. Not only have they failed to fix this, but its Jan 30, i havent heard a word from them, and my page says that they are being filed. The first problem with that is i had all of my auto payments turned off, i didn't want them doing anything FOR me. Now, i have no way to fix the issue, and i'm stuck in limbo. If they would just confirm they arent going to send it in i could print the W2 and W3 from a different program and mail in the hard copies to the correct destinations. However, the only response i get is that they sent the issue to the backend where they will fix it.  WHEN will they fix it? It was brought to their attention nearly 2 weeks ago and besides me contacting them multiple times, there is still no resolve.  Are they going t

I e-filed my 940 but keep getting notifications saying that it still needs to be filed. The payment has also cleared and is showing in my check register. I have tried to tap the e-file button again and I get an error message saying "oops, this form cannot be e-filed". I have also tried to click the file manually button, and get an error saying "oops, this form cannot be archived". So do I now need to send in the form manually even though I see a payment has been made?

I'm trying to file my 2024 940, and it says: QuickBooks has determined that you have $23,020.52 in exempt payments. I've never run into this before, why is it not calculating correctly? How do I fix this so I can file my 940? I use QuickBooks Desktop Premier Edition.

Is there a way I can see how quickbooks came up with each box on W-2? I understand what goes in each box, and I found some random numbers I can't wrap my head around. 2 main errors: 1. Our overtime is exempted from state wages (box 16). Some employee have correct Box 16 (Box 1 - Box 14) and some just have Box 1 amount. 2) Our Local Wage (Box 18) should equal to Box 1, but some have different amount. Their Local Tax (Box 19) is correct though.  I called payroll support, but all they could do was to see if my company file have any error, and told me to check with the accountant as they are not licensed to give suggestions? We pay about $3000 per year for this service and I think it's just not fair.  Back to my question, is there any way I can see how quickbooks came up with their number? 

Hi! Does anyone know how to unmask vendors EIN/SSN for the 1099 summary report? When I run the report all of the EIN/SSN are masked. I want to be able to see my own EIN as well as all of the vendors... Is it something in my settings that needs changed to allow for this?

Hello everyone! I need your help.I am Argentinean, I live and reside in Argentina, but I work remotely for an LLC in the United States. My employer is filling out the 1099 forms and I know that in my particular case I should give him the W-8BEN form since he pays me through an ACH transfer to my US bank account but I pay my taxes here in my country. Is this correct? Also he should fill out another form? I read somewhere that he should fill out the W-8BEN-E form. Thank you in advance for all your help. Agustin

How much of a garbage company do you have to be???? So since I do not want to pay your greedy company to file my 1099's, you seriously take away the ability to print a 1096!!!! That pretty petty. Seriously, can someone tell me a single reason for not providing a printable 1096 other than to force me to pay more money!!!! Your mobile app is unusable for any type of invoice creation, your point and click is slower than previous desktop versions which you have may so expensive, you've pretty much forced your entire small business market to online, where you provide a below average software, non existent customer support, and a monopoly on the whole industry. 

Hello , I have some vendors missing from the 1099 prepare. I checked and vendors are active, and are setup for 1099 tracking, have more then the threshold in payment last year and paid from the correct account. I cannot find out why they are missing from the 1099 prepare. I have to manually add them but I have a lot of vendors and seeing a lot missing for some reason and can't figure out why that is . It is tedious for me to add them one by one .any suggestions ? 

I've had this problem persisting for a few days now.  When I go to Prepare 1099s and agree to "Try It Out", Click "Confirm Info & Start Filing", then it starts "Drawing up your forms".  When I click "View Results", It glitches and goes right back to the "Let's Review your Recipients & prepare your 1099s" original page.  I've tried different browsers, cleared cache, memory, let the computer rest to think about what it has done, and it still doesn't work for me.  HELP!

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I filed my 1099's on 1-13-25 with e-file through QB Online.  I am wondering if there is any place to confirm that the State filings were in fact done.  I says accepted under the status, but no indication if for IRS or State.  Please help.  Thanks!