Preparing Payroll Tax Forms
Tax agencies require that you regularly submit forms documenting the payroll taxes and withholdings you're supposed to remit and how much you've already sent in. Depending on the QuickBooks payroll service you use, the program can print payroll tax forms for you. Standard Payroll provides federal tax forms. If you subscribe to Enhanced Payroll Plus, you can generate federal and state tax forms. Although the forms that QuickBooks produces aren't exact replicas of the preprinted forms you might receive from the government, they are close enough that you can send them in without fear of rejection.
Tip
Many tax agencies are moving to phone and electronic filing. If you use one of these filing options, choose Reports→Employees & Payroll and then choose a report, such as Employee State Taxes Detail to obtain the values you need for your filing.

Figure 11-11. How you specify the filing period varies by form. If you choose the Quarterly Form 941, in the Quarter drop-down list, choose the quarter for which you want to generate a report. QuickBooks changes the date in the Quarter Ending box to match the quarter you choose. Form 940 requires only the filing year, and W-2s don't need anything.
Regardless of which tax form you want to generate, the steps are basically the same:
Choose Employees→Process Payroll Forms.
QuickBooks opens the Select Form Type dialog box, which ...
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