How to Enter Paychex or ADP Payroll in QuickBooks
Should our gross payroll expense include our employee’s deductions? Or should we consider the net pay to employee as our payroll expense? The employee’s withholding was paid directly by paychex. Is that part of our payroll expense too? What would be the journal entry in QuickBooks?
Thank you
You really should enter each payroll individually, otherwise reconciling your bank account is going to be a nightmare. In this case, I recommend entering a check for each debit from your bank account. You’d enter the gross payroll as a positive number and employee withholding as a negative number. The net check would be what was actually debited from your account.
When you pay your payroll taxes ($59903.30) you’d enter two accounts – $50558.74 for payroll tax liabilities and $9344.60 for payroll tax expense.
But if you want to enter a journal entry for the entire year, it should look like this:
Debit – payroll expense ($168000)
Debit – payroll taxes ($9344.60)
Credit – bank account ($177344.60) – $117441.26 net pay + $59903.34 payroll taxes
I recommend switching to QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. It’s integrated with QuickBooks so you don’t need to enter journal entries. It’s also less expensive than Paychex.
Here are the standard fees. We can get you 20% off your monthly service fees for the first year:
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Ruth has provided QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses around the world since 1996. She is an Intuit Solutions Provider, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
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News Flash – IRS Won’t Require Reconciling 1099-K Reports on Credit Card Payments with Gross Receipts
It looks like the IRS is dropping the requirement to reconcile 1099-K. The IRS recently sent a letter to Susan Eckerly, senior vice president of public policy at the National Federation of Independent Business, IRS deputy commissioner for services and enforcement Steven T. Miller, wrote:
“Thank you for your January 18, 2012, letter concerning proposals that Forms 1120 and other business income tax forms require a reconciliation of gross receipts and merchant card transactions,” he wrote. “As you know, we announced in October that no reconciliation is required on the 2011 income tax returns. In your letter, you raised whether we would require reconciliation for future years and outlined potential business impacts if we pursued such reconciliation.
“This is to confirm what I stated in our recent meeting with your organization and other industry representatives,” Miller added. “There will be no reconciliation required on the 2012 form, nor do we intend to require reconciliation in future years. Our intention is that the reporting of gross receipts and sales on the 2012 income tax forms will be modeled on the 2010 income tax forms. No other changes to these forms related to payment card reporting are contemplated.”
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Ruth has provided QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses around the world since 1996. She is an Intuit Solutions Provider, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
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News Flash – QuickBooks Payroll Update: Social Security Tax Rate Extension
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Ruth has provided QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses around the world since 1996. She is an Intuit Solutions Provider, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
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How to Create Default Templates for Emailed Forms in QuickBooks
You can set both in Edit > Preferences > Send Forms. The QuickBooks Email option is on the My Preferences tab. The default templates for emailing forms is on the Company Preferences tab.
Make sure to bcc yourself on the default templates so you’ll know the forms were successfully sent.
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Ruth has provided QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses around the world since 1996. She is an Intuit Solutions Provider, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a member of the Intuit Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
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