Helpful Hints for Entering W-2 Totals
Here are some helpful hints about adjusting W-2 totals:
- When you click Apply, the changes take effect immediately on the employee's W-2 for the selected year and the Form 941 for the selected quarter and year. If you click Close without applying the amounts, your changes are not saved. Click Reset to clear all information in the window.
- If you are editing existing totals, remember that any changes you make change the amounts that print on the Form 941 report.
- When changing the Total Gross, Deduction, or Addition fields, you are prompted to disburse the amount to a specific cost center and pay type. The default cost centers and pay types that display are defined on the Pay tab of the employee's record.
- The Net Pay is a calculated field. Gross - Taxes - Deductions + Additions = Net Pay. When you retrieve an employee's record, ACS tries to verify this calculation. If the calculation is not correct, an error displays.
- Each of the employee wage fields in the Input W-2 Information window represents the amount of employee wages that are taxable (according to the pay type used for those wage amounts). Depending on the taxable settings for each individual adjustment, adjustments for the employee may or may not be included in this window.
- You can view or print Forms W-2 at any time for the current year to determine if tax options are set up correctly. You can print W-2s for all employees or reprint for a single employee.
- You can print Forms W-2 for the previous year after your first payroll run for the new year.
Using Multiple Tax Tables When Entering W-2 Totals
You can enter up to three local tax tables for each employee. When entering W-2 totals for employees with more than one local tax table associated with their record, you must distribute the proper amount of the local tax to the correct tax authority.
When there are multiple localities on the W-2, ACS prints the sum for those localities in the appropriate fields on Form W-3.
To enter three local tax tables for an employee, enter wage and tax information for the first two tables in boxes 18 and 19 in the Input W-2 Information window. Enter information for the third local tax table under Local Tax 3 under Transaction information on the same window.