How QuickBooks calculates payroll taxes
How QuickBooks calculates payroll taxes
QuickBooks calculates your payroll taxes on the year-to-date amount instead
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including:
Social Security
Medicare
Federal unemployment (FUTA tax)
State unemployment (SUI) (except for states that can have mid-year rate
changes effective on a date other than January 1)
State disability (SDI) (except for HI and NY because of a weekly wage limit
and, in the current version of QuickBooks, it is quarterly self-adjusting)
Predefined local taxes (except taxes based on quantity or calculated with a
deduction)
Example of the calculation method:
Medicare tax for current pay period | Medicare tax for next pay period |
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$ 1217.5 x 1.45% = $ 17.65375 rounded to $ 17.65 | $ 1217.5 (previous wages) + $ 1217.5 (current wages) = $ 2435 x 1.45% = $ 35.3075 rounded to $ 35.31 (total tax) - $ 17.65 (previous tax) = $ 17.66 |
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