Somehow, my 2015 tax tables got changed and reflect the federal and state limits for 2014. So, the Social Security limit of $117000 was used in 2015 rather than $118500. The withholding allows was off as well by the $50. Other than the tax brackets, most the limits and tax rates were the same from 2014 to 2015. My understanding is for federal and state tax withheld, the employee will be able to reconcile any over or under amount paid on his or her personal tax return. However, the Social Security limit must be corrected as I have 2 employees that are over the 117000. To do this, my thought is I will create a check with the gross pay such that calculates FICA (SS & medicare) and then also results in a net pay. I will want to adjust that gross amount such that when the natural social security calculation that takes place and I add it to the net pay, the amount equals what I need to pay the IRS for the employee's portion. I would then do a manual check and move the net pay into the social security tax field (not the taxable, the tax withheld) so the result is a ZERO check and then the tax owed and I pay that online along with the employer's portion. My hope is since I changed the tax limit to the right amount for 2015 before printing that the employer and employee will show up as it should in the payroll tax payment due screen in Business Works. Does this sound correct? Or, should I do a company paid deduction or something else? Thank you.
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