PCW 2003 Tax Registration

[larryrta]

I have just found out, unfortunately after the fact, that you cannot register the PCW 2003 tax program with Purchasing the Tax Service. Afte updating my PCW 2002 to 2003, I found my global tax table inaccessable. I had registered my 2002 tax and had access to the global tax tables. Peachtree says that now, beginging with 2003, you MUST PURCHASE the tax service, no more free registration!

I am very mad at this shakedown, and I am thinking of returning the 2003 product and reverting back to 2002.

Has anybody been able to register 2003 tax without purchasing the tax service? Or after upgrading to 2003 can you access the global tax tables?

[chikamic]

Unfortunately, I found this to be the case while upgrading a customer. It is kind of a sad development.

Although you cannot access the global tables according to Peachtree support you can access the company tables.

[ShamrockXS]

I have just purchased Peachtree Accounting 2003. I am converting from Quickbooks. Does anyone know if it is possible to continue with Peachtree and use every aspect of it without registering the global tax table and never having access to it? I am very discouraged by this additional cost .

[chikamic]

You will not be able to process payroll unless you purchase the tax service or have the ability to create company tax tables.

[TheWolf]

Yes you can still process payroll but you will have to either 1) create tax formulas in the company taxtable area or 2) Turn off all the calculations for those global taxes and enter them manually on a check.

[chikamic]

I think I did say that she would have to create company tax tables herself. Unless she turns off the global calculations, Peachtree will not even let you into the payroll entry task.

[AmandaChristy]

You should be able to get into the payrol task screen either way. If you were not to clear the checks out of the defaults or in the users, you would get could not find errors, but could still get into the screen.
A lot of my clients use the program to just record payroll entry, and manually over-ride the fields. This is very common. Others create their own or get assistance creating formulas so they can have calculated formulas without purchasing the tax service.
Either way, Peachtree is fairly flexible in this aspect.

[TheWolf]

Was just answering the original question. To follow up on it, to turn off the calculations go to Maintain, Default Information and on the employEE and employER tabs you want to remove calc from any of the global calculations. Now when you go into payroll you will not get the could not find errors and it will put no calculations in those deduction areas. This will allow you to manually enter those amounts from a circular E.

[AmandaChristy]

The tax registration started in 2002, and has continued in 2003, but you still have access to the company tables. In some cases it's just as easy to deal with the company tables since they are part of the backup procedure and can be tailored specific to each company.

[tsanwie]

Originally posted by chikamic
I think I did say that she would have to create company tax tables herself. Unless she turns off the global calculations, Peachtree will not even let you into the payroll entry task.
So, is it possible to enter the tax formula manually without subscribing?

[jwilfong]

Originally posted by tsanwie

So, is it possible to enter the tax formula manually without subscribing?

Yes. If you still have access to a version of PT that has access to the Global Tax tables view its calcuations. How they did it. How they used tables. Now go to the new version and enter the calcs into Company rather than Global. This is the easiest way.

If you don't have a global tax table to look at, it can still be done.. you just may have to read more of the help file to set them up.

[jwilfong]

As long as we're at it, there is more to it than just getting the tax tables working for cutting a check. What about W-2's?

Can someone, who does not have the tax service registered, check to see if you have access to the name of the employee when editing a W2 form. This should not be the full name but rather the split that is required on W-2's now. Seems to me that these fields were inaccessable with last years tax/program update.

If they are inaccessable, are the custom fields still accessible? This was a workaround in the past. You would have to enter the employee name into the custom fields and place them on the W2's to achieve the same effect.

[tsanwie]

Originally posted by jwilfong


Yes. If you still have access to a version of PT that has access to the Global Tax tables view its calcuations. How they did it. How they used tables. Now go to the new version and enter the calcs into Company rather than Global. This is the easiest way.

If you don't have a global tax table to look at, it can still be done.. you just may have to read more of the help file to set them up.

Actually, this is the first time I am using the payrol. Can you please assist me.

[richard kehl]

The first year that PT started the Tax Registration I created
all tax tables in Company and they worked fine, except FIT
was blocked from calculating.

Has PT changed this in PT2003?

[TheWolf]

No change that I have seen. You can manually enter your tables and formulas in company area or click through the error messages and enter them manually. (Alternately you can turn off the calculations to enter them manually). It looks like the correct form in 2003 but I have the tax service installed so someone who does not have it would need to verify if the w-2 is correctly formatted.