Entering miscellaneous state or local payroll tax information
(individual employees)

Regardless of how you've set up your employee defaults, you can customize the miscellaneous state and local tax information for each employee. QuickBooks then uses this information when you write a paycheck for the employee.

You need an "other" tax payroll item for each miscellaneous state or local tax.

Learn more about withholding federal, state, and local taxes from the American Payroll Association.

Have you set up payroll items?

1. Click Employee Center.

2. Click the Employees tab, if necessary.

3. If the employee is already on the list, double-click the employee's name.

   or

   If the employee is not yet on the list, click New Employee at the top of the list.

4. Click the Change tabs drop-down list and choose Payroll and Compensation Info.

5. Click the Taxes button. employee information, employees, entering tax information for, employees, payroll information about, payroll taxes (local), payroll taxes (state), miscellaneous taxes, . Click the Other tab.

6. If the employee is subject to one of the miscellaneous state or local taxes in the drop-down list in the Item Name field, click that tax.

   If the tax you want is not listed, choose <Add new> from the drop-down list and set up a new "other" tax payroll item.

7. If any blank fields appear on the Other tab for the tax you chose, fill them in.

   If you are not asked for the tax rate, QuickBooks already has the rate in its tax table. employee information, employees, entering tax information for, employees, payroll information about, payroll taxes (local), payroll taxes (state), miscellaneous taxes, . You can receive regular payroll updates, which include current tax tables, when you subscribe to QuickBooks Payroll. employee information, employees, entering tax information for, employees, payroll information about, payroll taxes (local), payroll taxes (state), miscellaneous taxes, . To learn more about QuickBooks Payroll, display the QuickBooks Payroll Web site.

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   For additional information that will help you fill in the fields, go to Intuit's State and Local Payroll Taxes Web site.

8. If the employee is subject to more taxes, choose them from the drop-down list.

9. Do one of the following:

   • To continue entering tax information, click either the Federal or the State tab.

   • If you have no more tax information to enter, click OK to return to the New or Edit Employee window.

See also

• Entering benefits and other adjustments

• Entering federal tax information (individual employees)

• Entering sick and vacation time information (individual employees)

• Entering state tax information (individual employees)

• Entering wage and salary information (individual employees)