Payroll Easy Setup Assistant

Review your payroll categories - Taxes

Use this window to review your payroll categories. The Select Category Type list includes Wages, Accruals, Deductions, Expenses or Taxes. When you select Taxes:

Use this window to review the tax tables that you loaded using the Payroll Easy Setup Assistant. Since tax table information is determined by federal, state and local governments, tax table information can't be added, deleted or edited. You can, however, edit the payables account that has been linked to each tax.

Separate liability account for each tax

In the Linked Account section of the Payroll Easy Setup Assistant you entered a single default liability account. Many businesses prefer to separate taxes withheld by using different liability accounts for each tax. If you want to do this, you'll need to create separate liability accounts for this purpose in your accounts list, if you haven't already. (If you added or changed accounts in the Accounts portion of the Easy Setup Assistant, you've used the Edit Accounts window already. Simply repeat your earlier steps to create the new account.)

You'll then enter the account you want to use in the Linked Payable Account field of the Tax Table Information window for each tax for which you want to track amounts separately.

For step-by-step instructions, see To change the payroll tax linked account (Easy Setup Assistant).