Maintain Pay Items in payroll

[BobDaniel]

We hired a new nursery worker in October and when I found that our 941 didn't jive with our payments, a few hours of searching discovered that employer deductions for social security and medicare were not made for this new employee. When setting up this employee, items 41 and 42 were checked, process was checked and the nursery worker classification was shown as taxable. Appropriate deductions were made for items 31 and 32, social security and medicare. The only clue I could uncover as to why employer liability items were not deducted was that when I clicked on items 41 and 42 for this employee, the tax table was shown as "Monthly:Single" (The only other options were "Monthly:Married" and "Manual").
Has a Maintenance Release made payroll changes that we have missed?

And, if and when we get this figured out, I assume we will have to go into each affected payroll and make appropriate corrections and remit the total to the IRS.

Thanks for any help -

Bob Daniel

[Zorak]

PowerChurch Plus doesn't update the tax tables at all.

You shouldn't have monthly tables in the program. It uses only annual tables. That shouldn't have any effect, though because social security and medicare are a flat rate.

Check the tax type that is assigned to these employer liability items in the Accounting > Payroll > Setup > Maintain Item Descriptions screen. Also check the tax type that is assigned to your social security and medicare items on the Maintain Tax Tables screen.