Payroll Tax Items

[wordoffaith]

The bookkeeper that originally set up the payroll gave a new tax item/number for every employee, i.e. #1 Gross Salary (for the Pastor) and then #3 Gross Salary for Associate Pastor, then every employee had a different number tax item for Federal Tax Withholding and SS and Medicare. In other words there are at least 26 different "tax items descriptions". Is there any way to delete these tax items and get it down to the basics Gross Salary/Fed Tax/etc. Thanks for any help on this. Just seems as though it shd be a lot simpler than she made it.

[NeilZ]

The bookkeeper that originally set up the payroll gave a new tax item/number for every employee, i.e. #1 Gross Salary (for the Pastor) and then #3 Gross Salary for Associate Pastor, then every employee had a different number tax item for Federal Tax Withholding and SS and Medicare. In other words there are at least 26 different "tax items descriptions". Is there any way to delete these tax items and get it down to the basics Gross Salary/Fed Tax/etc. Thanks for any help on this. Just seems as though it shd be a lot simpler than she made it.

Having different Item number for the Pastor's salary, Associate's salary, and staff salaries is actually the proper way to do it, as you should have different expense accounts for each, each with its own budget. Same if there are different housing allowance budgets for the pastor and associate.

However, you really don't need a separate tax item for each employee. You just create ONE FITW tax item for everyone, same with Social Security, Medicare, state and local taxes. When you add the pay item to the employees, there's where you setup any individual options for the employee.

For example: FITW is Pay Item 900. You then add item 900 to the employee. The employee is single, so you select the Federal Single Rate tax table, the employee does not want to claim any withholding exemptions, so you enter zero, however, the employee wants additional withholding,so you add 50.00 in the additional withholding block.

Powerchurch, by default, creates Employer SS, Employee SS, Employer Medicare, Employee Medicare. The employer pay items are Employer Liabilities, the Employee are tax deductions.

Here is a support article that give you an idea of what you should have for accounts, and pay items.

https://www.powerchurch.com/support/22/ ... roll-setup

Does this help ?