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Accounting News
Problems, outages, and quirks that QuickBooks users are reporting — tracked and explained by the desk.
Payroll & Taxes
QuickBooks generates Nevada Form TXR-020.05 for the state Modified Business Tax, with prefilled wage data and fields employers must complete manually each quarter.
Payroll
QuickBooks users generating Nevada Form TXR-020.04 encounter prefilled fields and calculation questions tied to the state's 1.475% payroll tax and $50,000 wage threshold.
Payroll & Forms
QuickBooks prefills most of New Mexico's CRS-1 Combined Report Form, but businesses must understand how withholding and location data map to their records.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills New Jersey Form NJ-927-W quarterly wage and tax data for weekly payers, but several fields require manual review before e-filing.
Payroll
QuickBooks can prefill most of New Mexico's quarterly ES903A wage report, but payment must be handled separately through the state's online portal.
Payroll
QuickBooks generates the UI QTD report to help Washington employers complete quarterly unemployment insurance returns, prefilling most fields from payroll data.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most fields for Vermont's quarterly withholding reconciliation form, but employers must verify health care contribution calculations manually.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Utah's TC-941R annual withholding reconciliation, but W-2 count, 1099s, and athlete wages need manual attention before filing.
Payroll
Removing a tax from an employee's QuickBooks record causes downstream problems with reports, forms, and liabilities — here is what to do instead.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Arkansas Form DWS-ARK-209B, but employers must verify wage-base thresholds and complete several manual fields before filing.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of the Arkansas DWS-ARK-209B unemployment form, but employers must review certain lines and identification fields before filing.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Georgia's quarterly withholding return for semi-weekly payayers, but employers must verify withholding IDs, deposit schedules, and adjustment boxes before e-filing.
Payroll
QuickBooks desktop payroll users working with IRS Form 7200 need to manually verify several credit calculations the software pre-populates from specific payroll tracking items.
Payroll & Forms
QuickBooks walks employers through a Form 940 interview covering Schedule A, FUTA credit reduction states, and Business Name Control for e-filing verification.
Payroll & Forms
QuickBooks locks Form W-3 fields and pulls every figure from W-2 data and interview selections, so corrections must be made upstream — not on the transmittal itself.
Fixed Asset Manager
How to bring depreciation and asset records from another program into QuickBooks Fixed Asset Manager using a properly structured CSV file and import template.
Payroll Forms
QuickBooks users filing Maine's seasonal UC-1 unemployment form need version 2017 R14 or newer, plus per-employee seasonal wage tagging in Payroll Center.
Payroll
QuickBooks users filing Maine's seasonal UC-1 must update to specific releases and tag employees as seasonal before wages populate correctly on the form.
Payroll
QuickBooks users filing Maine's seasonal unemployment form must flag employees as seasonal and use the right payroll tax table release for wages to flow properly.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most fields for the New Jersey quarterly employer report, but registration format and manual entries trip up filers. Here is what to check.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Florida's quarterly reemployment tax form, but out-of-state wage credits and electronic filing thresholds require manual attention.
Payroll & Taxes
QuickBooks users filing New York's MCTMT return discover the form is unavailable for periods before Q3 2023 due to missing Zone 1 and Zone 2 data.
Payroll
QuickBooks users filing Form 940 encounter confusion around FUTA credit reduction states and Business Name Control requirements during the program's interview process.
Payroll & Forms
QuickBooks walks employers through Form 940 with an interview screen covering Schedule A, FUTA credit reduction states, and e-file Business Name Control requirements.