Heather Landau

Giving your workers a payroll advance simply means offering them early access to their paychecks (generally due to an unforeseen event) with agreed-upon conditions. It basically functions as a short-term loan that employees repay with future paycheck deductions. Before offering staff this option, you should carefully consider legal regulations, taxes, and alternatives. What to Consider…

QuickBooks Workforce (formerly QuickBooks Payroll) offers 17 payroll reports that cover everything from employee details and payroll costs to workers’ compensation and tax liabilities. Below, we’ll cover the steps for running payroll reports in QuickBooks Workforce, review each report, and cover how to pull additional details and void a payroll check through reports. You will…

If you’re transitioning to Intuit after having used a different payroll service, you may need to enter historical data into QuickBooks Workforce (formerly QuickBooks Payroll). This will help ensure your payroll and tax reports are accurate and not missing any information. If you owe taxes accumulated before using QuickBooks, this will be a vital step…

When reconciling payroll, many QuickBooks Workforce (formerly QuickBooks Payroll) users are concerned with aligning their payroll records to their bank statements. There are, however, important related tasks, like learning how to reconcile payroll liabilities in QuickBooks. This consists of researching outstanding payroll debts, like payroll taxes or benefit premiums, that haven’t cleared your general ledger…

With QuickBooks Workforce (formerly QuickBooks Payroll), you can pay employees via same- or next-day direct deposit and print paper checks using your own printer. To print QuickBooks Workforce checks, you’ll need to purchase the proper check stock, adjust your printer settings so that everything prints in alignment, and run payroll for at least one employee….

Employers must fill out IRS Form W-2 and supply them to employees, the IRS, and some state tax agencies no later than January 31st of the year following the previous tax year. Employees use it to report payroll taxes paid, and the IRS uses it to determine how much is owed in taxes, if any,…

Employers are liable for paying their own employment taxes (Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment) in addition to withholding and paying payroll taxes for their employees. All three QuickBooks Workforce (formerly QuickBooks Payroll) plans (Core, Premium, and Elite) make it easy to calculate and pay these taxes. In this tutorial, we discuss how to set up…