Sage 100

One of the joys of payroll migrations is discovering that employees were set up with the incorrect withholding state and you have to correct in v2019.  However, attempting to correct results in an incorrect error message - Negative check - Even though you can plainly see that the net check is positive (attached).

I entered a negative earnings line for the YTD wages that were incorrectly attributed to Iowa (Iowa tax profile) and a second positive earnings line for the YTD wages but assigned the Illinois tax profile to that line.  Two lines net to zero.

Run the tax calculation for the employee and then switched taxes to manual.  Edited the state calculated state taxes so that Iowa reflected what had been withheld and modified Illinois to reflected the Iowa taxes.

Run the tax calc again.  Everything looks fine except that the net pay is calculating negative.  Bug, WAD or otherwise??

Thanks in advance.

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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My first thought was the taxes are askew, yet I see that you'd enter the amounts in manual taxes.  If the 2 (gross) earning lines net to zero, how is there a gross earnings amount on the check?  I know that if there is a negative taxable wages, there will be an error while processing the check entry, but i can't tell that from the screenshot.  So, things to look at - earnings line amount equal the total gross, and taxable amounts.

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Michelle Taylor
ERP Consulting Manager, CS3 Technology
918-388-9772
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I also paid him wages for 40 hours this week.  So there were three earnings lines - 40 hours - Illinois, -$8,000 - Iowa, $8,000 - Illinois.  Net earnings were the 40 hours.  NO deductions.

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-01-2019 15:54
From: Michelle Taylor
Subject: v2019.4 Payroll

My first thought was the taxes are askew, yet I see that you'd enter the amounts in manual taxes.  If the 2 (gross) earning lines net to zero, how is there a gross earnings amount on the check?  I know that if there is a negative taxable wages, there will be an error while processing the check entry, but i can't tell that from the screenshot.  So, things to look at - earnings line amount equal the total gross, and taxable amounts.

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Michelle Taylor
ERP Consulting Manager, CS3 Technology
918-388-9772
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Did you run tax calculation after changing to manual tax amounts?  It's like it just didn't calculate properly.

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Michelle Taylor
ERP Consulting Manager, CS3 Technology
918-388-9772
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-01-2019 17:12
From: Jeff Schwenk
Subject: v2019.4 Payroll

I also paid him wages for 40 hours this week.  So there were three earnings lines - 40 hours - Illinois, -$8,000 - Iowa, $8,000 - Illinois.  Net earnings were the 40 hours.  NO deductions.

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-01-2019 15:54
From: Michelle Taylor
Subject: v2019.4 Payroll

My first thought was the taxes are askew, yet I see that you'd enter the amounts in manual taxes.  If the 2 (gross) earning lines net to zero, how is there a gross earnings amount on the check?  I know that if there is a negative taxable wages, there will be an error while processing the check entry, but i can't tell that from the screenshot.  So, things to look at - earnings line amount equal the total gross, and taxable amounts.

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Michelle Taylor
ERP Consulting Manager, CS3 Technology
918-388-9772