How can I get Other Pay taxes to hit the GL correctly?

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We have had to add new Other Pay additions for the 2020 year and we are having an issue with the fact that the taxes on these Other Pays are not breaking out departmentally, even though the Other Pay is set up to break out departmentally. Is there another set up that we need to do to get the tax portion to automatically hit the correct GL account? This is causing an issue with our F9 reporting so I need to know if this is fixable. 
 
 TIA for your assistance.

Coleen Graber · Accepted Answer

BWalters- 
 The departmental posting setting in Other Pays will only post for the Debit Account displayed for the Other Pay. 
 You can assign task codes to the employee, however task codes do not apply to Other Pay. When setting up an other pay, there's a space to define a Debit account. The amount that posts to this account corresponds to the payroll expense associated with this other pay. Any tax expense associated with this other pay will post to the Payroll Tax Expense account defined under Utilities / Maintain Payroll Parameters / Posting Accounts. There's no way to assign a task code to the other pay on the time card to have it post otherwise. If control over both accounts is needed, the way to handle this would be to not use other pays at all. On the time card specify Miscellaneous pay for the 'Earnings type' field, then define a task code. The miscellaneous pay will then post to the accounts assigned to the task code. 
 For additional information on this, please refer to Knowledge Base ( www.sagekb.com ) article 31033 Cannot assign Task Codes for Other Pays. 
 Thanks, 
 Coleen

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