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Issuing W-2's

This is the first year that I am going to be handling the end-of-year payroll. We've used QB Pro with the Intuit assisted service (where we cut the checks using their auto-updated ax tables) all year.

It seems that to issue the W-2's, all I need to do is load the forms in the printer and do it. This seems deceptively simple. There must be more to it, because we have always waited until the last day to issue them in the past. All the companies I've ever worked for waited until the last day.

Am I missing something? Is there some terrible monster hiding under the desk that I need to know about?

Reply to
Chris McEwen
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For starters you can use plain paper you do not need any special forms if you are using QB. There is always a monster under the desk.

Reply to
Allan Martin

Thanks for the reply, Allan. Let me reword: I'm sitting here with W2's all done and printed from QB, sitting prettily in their envelopes awaiting stamps.

Why can an untrained circus monkey like myself get this done on January 3 when every bookkeeper I've known and every company I've worked for struggled to get them out by the end of the month? Can I safely issue these things?

Reply to
Chris McEwen

Thanks for the reply, Allan. Let me reword: I'm sitting here with W2's all done and printed from QB, sitting prettily in their envelopes awaiting stamps.

Why can an untrained circus monkey like myself get this done on January 3 when every bookkeeper I've known and every company I've worked for struggled to get them out by the end of the month? Can I safely issue these things?

Reply to
Chris McEwen

Did you say assisted payroll - where QB prepares and files your tax reports? As in they will send you the W-2's to pass out?

Reply to
Golden California Girls

No, I probably have the wrong name for the service. We do our own payroll and file our own reports, using the tax tables that Intuit provides for a fee.

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Chris McEwen

No, I probably have the wrong name for the service. We do our own payroll and file our own reports, using the tax tables that Intuit provides for a fee.

Reply to
Chris McEwen

Because in the real world, at year's end there are many chores that must be done that are more important than printing W-2s.

Reply to
Allan Martin

That and someone suddenly remembers that lunch or party that the government says the cost of the food is an addition to pay or some other little thing that hits a large number of W-2's, that wasn't booked right when it happened because someone wasn't thinking W-2.

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Golden California Girls

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