Problems with Q1 2009 Form 941

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PayWindow produced Form 941 for the first quarter with multiple problems:

1. Item 1 (Number of employees) -- it filled in the number of employees in my database (3), but only one of those actually received any wages in the first quarter. I would assume that PayWindow could determine that.

2. Section 7 -- for some reason that I cannot determine, PayWindow duplicated the current quarter's fractions of cents from 7a in 7b (7b is "Current quarter's sick pay"). There was no sick pay at any time.

3. 7d "TOTAL ADJUSTMENTS" was left blank. It should have been the total of lines 7a through 7c.

Of course these issues were easy to correct by editing the form, but I would much prefer that the software fill it out correctly in the first place.

BTW, I saved the original 941 form produced by PayWindow before editing it.

Thank you,
--peter

[Paul Mayer]

If you have a number in line 3, it is what you entered. This is one of the options that are up to you to enter. See the attached image on your options.

7b should be nothing as we do not track 3rd party sick pay, that field is left you you to use if you have such pay to report. I just verified that 7b was picking up 7a's info as the two filed use the same field name. This will be fixed in the next build. We use the actual IRS 941 form and didn't pick up on that as our testing never had an adjustment figure.

The same with the adjustment line, it is for you to enter any adjustments required that you may make when completing this form.

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Ah, I now see that the number of employees, just as the type of filer you are, are filled in the on-screen form before the report is printed. Got that now.

--peter