A default list of payroll categories is generated when you create your company file. You may want to review these categories and tailor them to suit your business needs. See ‘To create a payroll category’ below.
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Go to the Payroll command centre and click Payroll Categories. The Payroll Category List window appears.
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Click the tab corresponding to the type of payroll category you want to create—Wages, Entitlements, Deductions or Expenses.
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You cannot create any tax categories. To view the tax table information, click the Taxes tab and then click the zoom arrow () next to a tax. The tax table information is set by government legislation.
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Select the employees whose pay will include this payroll category by clicking the Select column (), and then click OK.
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a Wage category, click Exempt and select the taxes and deductions that do not apply to the new category
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an Entitlement category (and you have selected a percentage of gross wages as the type of entitlement), click Exempt and exclude those wage categories that should not be included in the entitlement calculation
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a Deduction category, click Exempt and select the taxes that should be applied only to net pay (that is, to gross pay less the deduction amount)
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an Expense category (and you have selected a percentage of gross wages as the expense basis), click Exempt and choose the wage categories that will not contribute to the value of the expense.
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Click OK twice. A payroll category information window appears.
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