payroll in QB

Treat them as independant subcontractors and forget about filing payroll returns.

"Allan Martin" wrote in news:DMkqe.23605$HP1.3692 @fe08.lga:

Well that would be nice but I am afraid that cannot be done. thanks for your input, tho. We run a small but sucessful retail florist and our employess cannot be treated as contract help...

regards,

- mark

Mark,

I was only pulling your leg. Your time is a hell of lot more important then the few bucks it costs for the annual payroll subscription. The reason software was developed in the first place was to same time.

Now you want to waste more time looking for a manual way of inputing payroll which will, in the end, take more time away from what is really important, running your business.

That's funny ... it's almost as good as the time someone asked me how they could assign the same social security number to all 30 of their employees in QuickBooks. :)

ok, seriously here, I'm cheap and I mean really cheap, and hate spending any amount of $$, but:

1. It's a business expense
2. It saves a lot of time and you don't need to be nearly as much on top of things when you have the subscription (Even if you just save just half an hour a payroll ... ... ... i think it's worth it)
3. You can do Direct Deposit if you get the subscription (no set up fee, but there is a per individual deposit fee).

The other thing I should point out is that Intuit includes a one time tax table download w/new QuickBooks purchases. If you haven't gotten it yet, you might still be eligible. Just call up Customer Service and ask. What version of QuickBooks do you have? 2005? 2004? 2003? You should still be able to get the tax table if you haven't already. If you have an older version (2002 or older) you'd be out of luck since the tax tables are no longer available for the retired QuickBooks versions. If you have 2003 or

2004 you might want to check with Customer Service.

The free tax table will be good (kinda/sorta [1] ) until Feb 15th of the following year.

You might also want to check out "manual payroll" or "calculate manually" in the QuickBooks help menu. It should have a topic on how to use the payroll module 'manually' by doing your own calculations to create "paychecks" (as opposed to regular 'write checks' with splits). Hope that helps.

-Elw00de

[1] Assuming of course tax withholdings don't change during the year. If they change, QuickBooks will keep calculating based off of the older withholding rates - which can get you into trouble if you're not aware of it -but- you can always adjust the amounts and/or make liability adjustments if you need to (It warns you every time you do payroll that witholdings might be wrong but it won't physically stop you from using the calculations until 2/15 of the following year) . If you don't get a QuickBooks payroll subscription you just need to be more vigilant in staying on top of these things.