PAYROLL 2009 TAX UPDATES
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Federal - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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California - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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District of Columbia (Washington DC) Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Indiana County Tax rate changes for 2009 on following counties: Carroll, Miami, & Posey
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Maine - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Maryland - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Michigan - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Minnesota - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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New Mexico - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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North Carolina - Withholding Tables now round to nearest dollar for 2009
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Ohio - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Oklahoma - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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Oregon - Withholding Tables updated for 2009
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PAYROLL Magnetic Media W-2s format updated for 2008.
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The magnetic media specification is now referred to as the EFW2 Specification and was formally referred to as the MMREF-1 Specification. References to the MMREF-1 specification in AccuBuild can be applied to the new EFW2 terminology.
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The field for the Personal Identification Number (PIN) is now called the User Identification Number (User ID) for 2008 under the Submitter Information (RA) section of the W2 Settings for Printed Forms and Magnetic Media. NOTE: All references to MMREF-1 on the tabs of this screen are now referred to using the new EFW2 terminology. Note: California Magnetic Media for the DE6 may still refer to this specification as MMREF-1 as their file layouts for the DE6 have not changed.
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PAYROLL ENHANCEMENT
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The tax calculation process for automatic payroll checks now checks for the current FICA Cutoff amount in the payroll properties and warns the operator if the cutoff amount is not correct for the current year in which the taxes are being calculated (based on your computer's date). For example, if today's date on your computer is December 19, 2008, then the system will check to make sure that the 2008 Cutoff Limit is set up in the payroll properties and if not a warning will be issued. This was added as an additional check for users to make sure new cutoff rates are entered and employee totals are rolled before running any payroll for a new calendar year.
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Form 941 The 941 Quarterly Payroll Report has been updated for the 2008 Revisions which were mostly cosmetic in nature. There were NO revisions in 2008 for Schedule B of the 941. The 2007 Version of the 941 Report will be maintained in the AccuBuild\Reports Folder for historical purposes and has been saved as prrep7q1_rev2007.622.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - ENHANCEMENT
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The User Tasks in the PM Log can now be synchronized with Outlook so that when a task is added to AccuBuild, it will be pushed to Outlook as a new task for the user.
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The Documents Panel under the PM Log will now sort the documents by clicking on the various column headings on the document list (document name, date, etc.)
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT CORRECTION
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An exception error involving invalid user links was being generated from the new Report Tab on the Project Management Screen after printing any PM Form and then clicking on the Reports Tab. This problem has been resolved in this update.
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The new ODBC Mail Merge Function in the PM Log was encountering security issues on Microsoft Vista Operating Systems where the mail merge tables were blocked from being copied down to the user's workstation folders in order to carry out the mail merge data with Microsoft Word Documents. New code was written to work around the security blocks and the problems have been resolved.
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The Teams form was generating an exception stating that the form was not in grid mode when the Add Many button was used. This bug has been fixed and the Add Many button now works correctly.
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The CO Form in project management now reflects the total change for each category including all COR and Markup amounts ONLY and not the CO Markup Amounts. A fix in the 8401 Lime Update was including the CO Markup Amounts as part of the COR Total which was wrong.
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The CO Form data pipe (SQL Script) has been updated with 3 new fields that can be used in the CO Forms to extract the various cost and markup amounts for the COR. The new fields are as follows:
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"COR base cost amount" base cost of COR before adding COR Markup Amounts
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"COR estimated cost amount" base cost of COR plus the COR Markup Amounts.
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"COR contract billing amount" base cost of COR plus the COR and CO Markup Amounts.
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