Sage 100

V2015 STD PR Manual Check - Client has employee out on medical leave for remainder of the year. Employee pays their pre tax medical deduction via personal check. Client wants to add this amount to employee's YTD withheld deductions in PR. Issue is that Sage is not recognizing FICA negative earnings BUT it DOES recognize Medicare negative earnings. See attached. I tend to think this is a WAD BUG. Has anyone developed a workaround besides FIXing the YTD buckets?? TIA

It would seem that this transaction could be entered the same as reversing out a payroll check and entering manual taxes. When you reverse a payroll check the fica earning have to reverse also. Can you enter a $0 manual PR check with manual taxes, or is that the method you are using? ie check manual taxes, uncheck auto deductions, auto earnings, print checks and direct deposit.

The issue isn't what you enter but what you can't touch. You can't touch the EMPLOYER side of things in manual tax entry. Whoever wrote the code back in the day did it correctly for Medicare wages but totally spaced it for FICA. Our next thought is to reverse the last paycheck written to the employee, then issue a replacement for double the insurance deductions, increase the FIT deduction to offset decrease in Fica/Medicare withholdings, add a negative standard deduction to get the check net amount back to the original check and then deposit the employee insurance check into the standard deduction GL account to balance the GL. Whew!!!! All this for a coding WAD!!!!

What a mess. Good luck. Let's hope the new and improved payroll module has a better solution than that.

Sent a note to Diane Coffman regarding this issue. Will see what she says..

I wonder if you could just change in DFDM after running Tax Calculation.