MN and IA W/H and UI Issues- Help!!

[JKing]

Hello,

I need to find a good way of keeping separate MN and IA state withholding taxes from employee payroll checks. Employees are generally either MN employees working in MN or IA employees working in IA. Here is my plan. Let me know where it lies short.


Under Maintain/Default Info/Employee Defaults, the current default for State W/H is…

Field Name G/L Acct Calc Tax Name
State 23200 ck. **SIT

My plan is to change the current field name to indicate MN, and to add another field and acct. no. for IA

Field Name G/L Acct Calc Tax Name
State-MN 23200 ck. MNSIT
State-IA 23300 ck. IASIT

The tax names need to be MNSIT and IASIT. If it is **SIT, then Peach will look at the default state of MN for both, correct? If so, this is what I don't want.

Would I need to do the same under the ER Fields as well for MN and IA State Unemployments?

Under Maintain/Employees, I will keep State-MN the default for W/H and simply de-check State-MN and check State-IA for employees working in Iowa on individual employee records.

W-2s will need to be run in two separate batches due to the UI numbers being different for MN and IA.

Anything else you can think of that needs to be done?


Thanks in advance,
Jon

[JKing]

I really revamped my thinking. It appears that I only needed to change the State under Maintain Employees, Withholding Tab, to IA for Iowa employees. If I use the Tax Liability Report, it separates out Federal, MN, and IA. I can use the same accts, not changing anything, the same formulas **SIT, etc. in the Employee Defaults section, etc. Perfect. I did need to create a user maintained formula named IASUI 07 for Iowa State Unemployment. Seems to work perfectly.