The reason you cannot see this G/L account is becus that benefit is for calculating the taxes only - the employee is not being paid this benefit nor is it being deducted. Payroll simply adds the benefit to the wages, calculates the taxes, then discard the benefit from the wages.

Try this:

Enter the payroll without the benefit and pull up the report to see the journal entry.

Note the EI/CPP/tax amounts and the net pay.

Then enter the benefit amount leaving the report showing.

Note the changes now in the EI/CPP/Tax amounts and the net pay.

However there is no other changes - wages do not change etc.

Hope this helps.

The reason you cannot see this G/L account is becus that benefit is for calculating the taxes only - the employee is not being paid this benefit nor is it being deducted. Payroll simply adds the benefit to the wages, calculates the taxes, then discard the benefit from the wages.

Try this:

Enter the payroll without the benefit and pull up the report to see the journal entry.

Note the EI/CPP/tax amounts and the net pay.

Then enter the benefit amount leaving the report showing.

Note the changes now in the EI/CPP/Tax amounts and the net pay.

However there is no other changes - wages do not change etc.

Hope this helps.

Ok but I still need to see the amount each month in order to add it to WSIB and EHT for remittances so should I just create an excel template to get the amount per pay and then multiply it by the # of pays in that month? Thanks.

Your EHT should be calculated on the benefit as well - have a look at the settings for payoll income, likely you will see in the blue section the Benefit and the tick mark under EHT.

I,m pretty sure WSIB is also calculating on the benefit as well.

But if I was to run a GL listing to get the amount of wages for that particular month to calculate the premiums on the benefit amount is not going to be included anywhere.  Is there another report to run that would include them all?  Right now, I just take the GL accounts for wages, etc. and calculate from it.

You can use the payroll employee detailed report for the particular month which will show the benefit amounts. You can then calculate the premiums if you need to verify that it is being calculated properly.

The Wage G/L listing will only show the actual wages and vacation pay that was paid out - it will not show the benefit amount that was used in the payroll chq tax calculation.

Awesome thanks!  I never even thought about running a employee detailed report.  I always run GL listing and then an allocation (which we set up for WSIB since we have multiple accounts). I'll just have to create a list of what employee is what WSIB code as a quick reference.