PASIT (PA Withholding) calculating wrong after adding new employees?

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We hired several people in the past few weeks. We border WV so this is the first time in 5 years that I have WV employees on my tax liability report. I went through all of the proper steps, everything is pointing to where it should formula wise in Sage. I am withholding WV taxes on the WV employees since they are in a reciprocal state. That is all fine. The issue is, PA has a flat withholding rate, 3.07%, which has calculated fine all of 2024 until my last pay period with 7 new employees. 3 of these employees are WV. I am not sure where this miscalculation is happening, I have spun my wheels for hours. I am only off $11.96, so I was going to just deposit and pay that overage instead of what Sage is showing. Sage is showing I owe $1,222.00, my calculations are $1233.96. I just can't figure out where it is miscalculating?!

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    Hi Debbie,

    It sounds like there may be some configuration settings with the new employees that are not quite right, there's quite a few possibilities as to why the numbers may be different with this (too many to go into here).  If you haven't already I would recommend reaching out to our support team so they can take a look.

    Thank you.

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    Thank you so much. Actually, I had to manually do the calculations to see if I screwed up somewhere. Sure enough, I did. I have to changed the local withholding for 3 employees as they have 1.5% withholding instead of 1%. I accidentally put it in the state. I have to correct that!