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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 ReportsEmployees & Payroll and then choose a report, such as Employee State Taxes Detail to obtain the values you need for your filing.

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.

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:

  1. Choose EmployeesProcess Payroll Forms.

    QuickBooks opens the Select Form Type dialog box, which ...

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