How to Solve QuickBooks Payroll liabilities adjustment-Call 1-800-518-1838

Overview

This article explains how to use a liability adjustment to correct an employee's year to date (ytd) information contained in payroll items such as company contributions, employee addition and deduction payroll items. Below is a list of common scenarios that can be corrected by doing a liability adjustment.

• You set up Health Insurance Company Contribution with the wrong tax tracking type and need to correct the liability amount after creating a new payroll company contribution item with the correct tax tracking type.
• You need to adjust year to date (ytd) wages, deduction or addition payroll items for an employee who will not be receiving any more future paychecks (i.e.: terminated employee)
• You need to increase or decrease amount for company contribution items such as Health Savings Account (HSA), Simple IRA company match or 401(k) company match.

If the adjustment will impact or change the data on your quarterly return, you might consider doing a quarter to date (qtd) adjustment instead of a year to date (ytd) adjustment.

 if Your unable to solve “Adjust Payroll Tax Liabilities in QuickBooks” to dial QuickBooks Customer Support Phone Number 1-800-518-1838 with toll-free.

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 1. Create a Payroll Summary Report to get the amount on the payroll item that needs adjustment.

Change the date range on your Payroll Summary Report to match the effective date on your liability adjustment. Example: If you are doing an adjustment for the 1st quarter your report should have a From Date of 01/01 through 03/31.

 2. Choose Employees > Payroll Taxes and Liabilities > Adjust Payroll Liabilities.

 3. Select the correct Effective Date.

• Assisted Payroll:  
  • For a previous quarter use the last day of the affected quarter.  
  • For the current quarter use the same date as the last paycheck.
• Basic, Standard or Enhanced Payroll: It should be the same date as the last paycheck of the affected quarter or today's date if doing an adjustment that affects current quarter only.

 4. Do one of the following:

• If this adjustment will affect an employee's year-to-date (YTD) information, choose Employee Adjustment and then select the employee in question.
  Note: Do this even if the item being adjusted is a company-paid item. It updates the YTD information reported on the employee W-2 form.
• If the balance simply needs to be removed from the Payroll Liability Balances Report or removed because it causes a balance to appear in the Chart of Accounts, choose Company Adjustment.

5. In the Taxes and Liabilities section, click the Payroll Item column and select the correct payroll item.

 6. Insert the amount of the adjustment in the corresponding field (negative to decrease the amount of the liability and positive to increase the amount of the liability).

7. Use the Memo column to note what the adjustment is for, for future reference.

 8. Click Accounts Affected, choose Do not affect accounts or Affect liability and expense accounts.

What does Do not affect accounts or Affect liability and expense accounts mean?

• To leave the balances unchanged for the liability and expense accounts that track the payroll items you are adjusting, select Do not affect accounts.  The adjustment will still change the year-to-date amounts on your payroll reports.
• To enter an adjusting transaction in the liability and expense accounts that track the payroll items you are adjusting, select Affect liability and expense accounts.

 9. If you have additional employees, click Next Adjustment and repeat the steps for each affected employee. (Be sure to change the Date and Effective Date and Employee Name fields.)

 10. If there are no additional employees, click OK to save your entries.

 11. Review the Payroll Summary Report to verify that the totals are now correct.

Payroll Summary Report

 If you are a Basic, Standard, or Enhanced customer, run the Payroll Checkup.

• If you are an Assisted Payroll customer, please contact us to complete these corrections or if you need to do an adjustment for payroll liabilities that affects payroll taxes.

1.If you have Assisted Payroll, send a zero payroll to transmit your changes to the payroll service.

Send a zero payroll

 2. Correcting the Payroll Liability Balance Report and Liability Check that had already been entered or sent for payment.

If a Liability Check had already been created for the old payroll item, the Payroll Liability Balance Report will show negative balance and the new item will show positive balance as result of the adjustment.

To fix the Payroll Liability Balance Report and the Liability Check:

1. Go to your payroll Bank Register and locate the liability check you created for the old payroll item
2. Right click on it and select Edit Liability Check.
3. Under the Payroll Liabilities tab, replace the old payroll item with the new one.
4. Click Save & Close and click Yes to the message to record changes.

Adjust Multiple Liabilities at the Same Time

You can adjust more than one payroll liability at a time. The key thing to remember is which period you are adjusting for.

You can adjust more than one liability at a time during one liability adjustment transaction by selecting the payroll items in the payroll item column provided. You can use only one effective date for a liability adjustment. If you need to make adjustments for more than one period, then you must use a separate adjustment transaction for each period. Also make sure that the adjustments are correct by selecting the appropriate reports when finished.

 if Your unable to solve “Adjust Payroll Tax Liabilities in QuickBooks” to dial QuickBooks Customer Support Phone Number 1-800-518-1838 with toll-free.

Ref Link: This article is originally published on community.intuit.com November 2015.