Adjustment to SS and fed tax

[debbieg]

There were some pay periods at the beginning of the year where the amount of SS tax and federal tax were not withheld correctly. I have gone back to all the employees and re-calculated what should have been taken out each time and came up with an adjustment figure to make on a future payroll. When I do this, is there a way to make that appear as a separate deduction? I know the employees won't care but I was just concerned if anyone looked at that particular payroll, they would wonder why the SS was calculated wrong. Can I create a new pay item something like "SSI correction" and still associate it with the same liability account as the regular employee SSI? Or is there something different that I'm not even thinking of?
thanks for your input.
Debbie

[JohnDMeyers]

I would do it as you suggest. Use "SSI correction" as a separate pay item.

Be sure to correct the amount in the "real" SSI withholding from here on out!

[debbieg]

Thanks John. yes, the payroll has been fixed now. The problem was it is set up as an ACH batch that submits automatically every pay period. The batch was changed at the beginning of the year to adjust taxes but it was erroneously marked as a "one time" change instead of "every batch from now on". By the time that was caught, several pay periods had gone by.

Debbie