Sage MAS 90 and 200 Product Update 7 (4.40.0.7)

Payroll

1. Payroll Tax Calculation and the tax tables have been modified based on the Connecticut Withholding and Calculation.

Rules Effective August 1, 2011. The Tax Calculation program has been modified for versions 4.20 and higher. 

Note: Following the last payroll processed in July and prior to the first payroll processed in August, in order the Connecticut taxes to calculate correctly for the remainder of the Tax Year 2011, you must:

1. 1. Install the Payroll Tax Table Update
   2. Assign the appropriate new employee filing status for each employee that earned Connecticut income in 2011 prior to August 1.

The pre-existing Filing Statues A, B, C, D & F have been updated with the new rates for Table C-Withholding Tax and should be used for employees hired after August 1, 2011.

Additional Information Regarding Calculating Connecticut Taxes Due to the significant changes in the Connecticut tax law you must pay special attention to employees’ wages throughout the balance of this tax year. The following are some special circumstances where the Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 Payroll program calculations cannot fully accommodate these tax law changes and manual calculations may be required.

For example:

 If you have recently hired employees, prior to August 1, 2011, you will have to determine whether to continue to use their existing filing status or change to the new filing status. Either way, for this small group of employees, they will be under or over withheld. You may want to calculate their taxes manually to determine which filing status will calculate the most accurate withholding amount for the rest of the year.

For employees with varying paid hours (20 hrs week 1, 30 hrs week 2, etc) you would need to manually calculate their taxes using the wage bracket tables and enter as manual taxes in Payroll Data Entry for each check.

 In order for employees who have elected to have an additional state tax amount withheld from their check, manual tax calculation will be required because the new recapture tax calculations for Connecticut will keep adjusting the YTD state tax based on the new tables.

Daily Transaction Register is no longer out of balance when accruing payroll. In State eFiling and Reporting gross wages now populate Line 13 on Texas Form C- 3.3