Employee & Payroll /Remittances

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I am a new user to Sage 50 2019.  Our company only has 1 employee/owner so I set him up as an employee under the "employee & payroll" feature instead of purchasing the payroll module.  I enter all the deductions manually but under the WSIB tab, I put in the rate.  I also set up the remittance journal feature so I can pay the remittances through it.  I now noticed that the WSIB is showing in the ledger as a deduction on his pay cheque as "WSIB payable" but on his paycheques, I only deduct taxes and CPP which I manually enter.  My question is, how do I do this correctly.  Should I delete the WSIB rate from the employee record and just make the quarterly remittance to WSIB through the A/P feature (there is currently a WSIB vendor set up) or should it show as a deduction on each paycheque even though I am not actually deducting WSIB from his pay, and pay it through the remittance journal.  The correct amount payable for this remittance is showing in the remittance journal. 

My second question is, I tried to set up the remittance payable to CRA for CPP and taxes through the remittances journal but it is showing the CPP as negative yet the tax amount is correct. The result is that the amount payable is not the correct amount that I have to remit for source deductions.

Please help.

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    Re: WSIB

    This is an employer expense.  You have not set it up as a deduction from the paycheque but as a Company expense that is calculated on each cheque based on the gross earnings of the employee.  This allows you to track the expense on an ongoing basis and apply any costs for WSIB to any project if you do project allocations.  If you check the journal entry before you post, you should see a debit to the expense account and a credit to the liability account for the same amount.

    Re: Payroll remittance

    I have not worked with the remittance feature on a live database in a long time however, it sounds like the balances of the CPP liability account is not accurate or that there was some adjustment done that caused the balance to go negative.  Before reviewing the liability account ledger report however, check to make sure the ending date for the period is entered correctly.