Complete 2002 Payroll Tax Tables - manual updates

[james]

Since the tax table included with Complete Accounting "expired" on 12-31-01, I've tried to manually update the tax tables without being forced to purchase the update service. Being an old PCA DOS user, starting with PCAI III, doing tax updates to the tables was not a big challange with DOS, but the Windows version is a pain. I just finished the coversion to the windows version except for payroll.

The first problem I've been having is with creating a new record for FIT M2 or FIT M1 (as a test since I didn't do payroll in the windows version last year). I try to add it in the Global Payroll Tax Tables and it said "The tax table you just modified or created cannot be saved in Maintain Global Tax Tables because the tax year (2001) for the table is later than the currently registerd payroll tax service (2000). To add...blah..blah...pay the money or enter the table in Maintain Company Tax Tables. So I enter it in maintain company tax tables and save it. It creates the record, does not save the table or the formula. You can't reedit it, what's up with that?

I know liablity, for payroll...buy tax update.... come on this is for a two person company and my wife is the second employee.

The second problem is trying to delete out payroll and reset it up using the new wizard. It will not finish because it was created in an older version of PCAW, so vacation and sick times can't be setup using the wizard.... not that I would get sick time. It doesn't finish the 401K setup, that is the real problem.

Thank you,

[richard kehl]

You do not have to buy the update. Call Peachtree an ask for
the 2002 Tax Registration Number.

You can not change FIT without it.

[james]

I called and did get the tax registration number, without a purchase, amazing.

The second question still is out there about the Payroll setup wizard. I've used one employee for Time and Billing. I could not delete the employee to start fresh with payroll. Is it possible to get a fresh start with payroll and use the wizard? Would I gain anything by doing that? I would like to setup the 401K with auto-deductions. Any ideas?

Thank you

[jasoncpa]

No charge for payroll updates???? Huh???? I am a QuickBooks user and pay $129 per year to update payroll. Maybe it is just a different pricing structure? Do they charge more for annual software updates?

[james]

I called and got the activation number so that I could do a manual update of the tax tables. It's not rocket science. The tables are very straight forward. You just have to look up the information from the IRS, State and local taxes that your responsible for. It took me about half an hour to do it. The hardest part was getting the local cents per hour formula working for the state of Oregon workers comp. That's not part of the tax update service anyway.

James

[CABS]

James: I think your problem may be that your payroll tax service year (2000) does not reflect the current payroll year (2002). If you go in to "set up payroll", the screen will tell you what tax year the program is operating under. You probably already know this since it gave you the message that your tax service year was 2000.

Go into the toolbar under tasks; go to system; go to close payroll year. You will have to close payroll year 2000. You will then have to repeat this step and close payroll year 2001. Then the program should recognize the changes you want to make, or data you want to add regarding employee exemptions, benefits, taxes, etc.

Good luck!

[Deborah Bean]

CABS: I'm not sure what question you are trying to answer. Is it the original question of why the tax tables cannot be manually updated? This is a question I had and was so glad to see the solution was to call Peachtree for a new registration number. I had a number of clients with this problem for 2002. I never thought Peachtree would do this. I though they were determined to get their annual fee regardless.

In the pre-2002 days I have had to manually changed these tables for some clients. Of course, for most with the latest version I have simply purchased the tax update myself and then copied to clients' systems. That doesn't work any more for 2002 because it wanted to "register" the tax tables. Glad to know there is an out for my smaller clients.

Anyways, thanks for the tip. I will try this next year now that this year's clients are updated.