Paying your employees > Creating payroll categories
To create a payroll category
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Go to the Payroll command centre and click Payroll Categories. The Payroll Category List window appears.
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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Click New. The […] Information window for the selected payroll category type appears.
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Click Employee. The Linked Employees window appears.
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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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