Employers Total Report for Federal Liabiliites Totals Wrong

[huselton1]

Hi. For some reason the employee federal liabilities total report I use for reporting monthly payment of 941 is calculating wrong totals even though the deducted amounts above it are correct. Just the total is wrong. I am doing it the way I always have. There are figures in the first column under "period" for some reason and I can't figure out what they represent. I think they are usually 0 in that column. I always select the last payday of the month for the date to generate the report. Any ideas. Thanks

[Paul Mayer]

The Period will *only* display if you have selected the actual Pay Date. Since this report should be printed each pay day, it's simple to print it as soon as you are done paying the employees.

Two things on the totals...

First you should be aware that the FICA rates are no longer the same for the employee and employer. So you cannot simply double the employee rate to get the total FICA.

The other factor is if you've not updated before each pay day this year, you probably missed the new program and tax tables when they were released on January 1st making your employee FICA deducted at the wrong rate thus causing it to be incorrect by performing some payrolls at the old 6.2% and current payrolls at the new correct 4.2% for the employees.

[huselton1]

Oh and thanks Paul for the quick reply. I actually did update the program at the start of January so that much is right. It's the monthly employer's account that I have wrong. Would love to see small business owners get a break one of these days.

[Paul Mayer]

Also make sure you have the current release installed as there was a problem in the reports in early January. The current release is 9.0.25.