have an employee that pays child support thru garnishment. When posting my 'Enter Bills' and 'Pay Bills', how is the check to child support posted?
Best answer December 10, 2018You need to Answer the question and not keep starting this topic Over as a new topic.
What does your Payroll Entry look like, now?
If you want help, you need to Show Us what you do.
I have two people making $10 an hour, for a 40 our work week and one has $50 child support deduction.
Gross Wages $800
Employer Share of Taxes $XX
Employee Share of Taxes $YY
Takehome checks = Not including the $50, if You need to send it on. That is a Split out, as if that is a different person's Takehome. You would post it to Liability, then Write Check and Pay that liability.
You need to Answer the question and not keep starting this topic Over as a new topic.
What does your Payroll Entry look like, now?
If you want help, you need to Show Us what you do.
I have two people making $10 an hour, for a 40 our work week and one has $50 child support deduction.
Gross Wages $800
Employer Share of Taxes $XX
Employee Share of Taxes $YY
Takehome checks = Not including the $50, if You need to send it on. That is a Split out, as if that is a different person's Takehome. You would post it to Liability, then Write Check and Pay that liability.
This is a Peer User forum. If you had finally posted an example of What you enter, others would have learned, too. Thanks.
December 10, 2018 06:38 PMDon't use Bills; this is not your vendor and this is not a Bill to be paid later. You, the employer, are handling that employee's share of Taxes and Child Support, because the employee will not be paying it out themselves. None of this is a Bill to a vendor name. It's all part of Payroll Liabilities.
Thanks for linking to an older article; it's nice to know they still exist and still apply :)
December 10, 2018 06:38 PMpayroll is not done thru QBs we have separate company ADP, would I pay the bill under ads with Child Support Garnishment as label?
December 10, 2018 06:38 PM"would I pay the bill under ads with Child Support Garnishment as label?"
Child Support divisions or enforcement is not sending you a Bill to Pay Later. AP is not involved. The Child Support is already deducted from Net Take home.
There is no Bill in this process.
Let's take One Example:
Joe is supposed to get $300 takehome, so enter everything as usual.
Now, Job also has $50 to go to child support. You didn't not state if You sent that or ADP sent that. It Doesn't Really matter, because it is a Diversion or further allocation of Joe's $300:
Child Support enforcement gets the other $50
Hi there nadeen,
I'm here to help you account for child support.
Since the garnishment isn't an employer's expense, it will be posted to your liability account. In addition to this, I've found a helpful answer that was previously posted by our awesome Community AllStar qbteachmt: https://community.intuit.com/questions/826439
This should help you input your child support to the correct account. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below. I'll be here to help.
December 10, 2018 06:38 PM"I still don't know where or how to enter the $50 that enforcement gets"
You seem to be using a Bill for payroll, instead of a Check? What do you list on that Bill? We don't know what your Input looks like.
And who sends the child support payment?
Wow!! Remind me to avoid asking you anything.
January 22, 2019 09:31 AMFirst, this forum has been "rolled up" from years of prior input, so you don't see that older things happened other than dated Dec 10, 2018, when this transition occurred.
Next, this is a peer user community on the internet; not live chat with Intuit support. Anyone here trying to help, really needs good details and examples, and when anyone is asked for more details, it helps if they provide that, and not keep starting the same question as new topics, which is what happened here.
And lastly, you can certainly help Answer as well as Learn from this forum. That's why it is called a peer Community.
January 22, 2019 10:59 AMLike many, I come here for peer answers and peer support, not to be made to feel like an idiot. If you cannot maintain civility and treat others with respect, even when frustrated, you shouldn't be contributing. Unless you would like me to go further on this public forum, I suggest that you not respond. If you would like to continue this debate, and have it all here for everyone to read, please continue. I must warn you, I am a human rights activist, and I love, and am very good at debating.
May 31, 2019 10:05 AMIt took me a while to figure out how to do it as it was not obvious. I had to do a wage levy (in my case for taxes for a particular employee). I followed steps here to create the wage levy to reduce the check in the payroll.
After that was done, in order to pay out the levy collected, I created a check to the Name of the agency setup in the payroll garnishment item (where the money would go - for me this was the MA dept of Revenue). In the account field for the check, I typed in payroll liabilities - Quick books picked this up and brought me to a screen where i could chose to 'Pay Payroll Liabilities'. I then selected the appropriate liability account that I had set up in the payroll garnishment item.
Hope this helps!
December 27, 2019 12:00 PMIn this case - Which liability account do you have for this garnishment?
Currently my child support payment is being associated to my payroll wages account, however I think that is incorrect. Your thoughts?
This is making my payroll wages increase tremendously.
January 23, 2020 02:39 PMI have this same question. Currently child support payment for one of our employees is being associated to payroll wages account as well. I think this is accurate, although I have my doubts. As someone stated above this is not a company bill but a Diversion or further allocation of the employee's money. That's what makes me think it should be correct but would love to hear otherwise if not.
February 07, 2021 07:05 PMI have the same question. Except that I Have an outside payroll company doing my payroll for 1 an employee who has a child support deduction. When I get the forms back from the payroll I input the information into QuickBooks, but for some reason when inputting the check information as I would any other employee without a child support garnishment I can't seem to balance the end of the month reconciliation. When inputting the check information and liabilities, the garnishment is going in as a "liability", but its a separate check that I send out, but it combines on the paycheck stub. Therefore, my register is all screwed up. Help! how do I enter a check from an outside payroll company correctly with a child support garnishment that splits the actual check and child support check? Thank you in advance.