Manse in Lieu of Housing Allowance

[NeilZ]

OK ... my wife and I are living in the manse attached to the church (happy happy .. joy joy). We stay there in and the church reports a manse allowance based on the fair market value of rentals in the area.

Now the question: I had answered this same sort of question for a user using v9 in this thread: http://powerchurch.com/forum/viewtopic. ... nce#p15609

Now I'm starting to realize that it wasn't as easy in v11 as I thought. How do you setup the manse allowance (remember no money comes our way) in Powerchurch so that it shows up in the W-2 block 14 ?? Or, should we just set it up to show as SS/Medicare wages on the W-2.

If I set it up as income, the system asks for an expense account. Since there really isn't an expense to the church, there's nothing I can really use here.

I probably asked this question during the online Payroll Class and I could look it up in the video capture, but I figure others may have the same question so I posted it here.

Off topic:

there is one good thing about my wife being the pastor and us living in the manse. If someone comes to the door looking for the minister, she just tells them that he's not here !!

[Pastor K]

I think the easiest thing to do is to manually enter the amount when reviewing the w2s. As I understand, in v11 it will now keep that information for you when you finish, just in case you need to reprint. I would not recomend working this through payroll. You do not want anything to show up in the SS/MED lines on the w2.