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21st Century Payroll for Adagio HIRE Act Support
July 2010
The 21st Century Payroll 6/30/2010 Tax Update supports the exemption benefit created by the HIRE Act. Follow these instructions for implementing the HIRE Act exemption benefit in your Payroll.
First, add the HIRE Act exemption tax.
  1. Run the Payroll/Configure/Taxes command.
  2. Click on the entry or press the F9 key to add a new tax.
  3. Select the "US HIRE Exemption" tax from the list. This tax enables the program to correctly process the exemption for qualifying employees on future payrolls.
  4. Specify the same Liability and Expense accounts that are specified for the US Social Security tax definition.
  5. You can skip the Reporting ID and Remittance vendor fields.
  6. Fill in the other fields as appropriate for your company.
  7. Click "OK" and "Save changes" when done.
  8. Run the Payroll/Configure/Employees command and assign the tax to all qualifying employees.

Now run the HIRE Act Adjustments utility.

  1. Now go to Payroll/HIRE Act Adjustments (right above the separator line on the main Payroll menu).
  2. Run HIRE Act Adjustments.

Click to see what the HIRE Act Adjustments utility does.
Additional HIRE Act credit adjustment for 21st Century Payroll for Adagio
July 2010
If you are taking advantage of the Hire Act credit, you will need to make some adjustments to your accounting in addition to the changes that were needed for the 941. After you have submitted the Q2 941, make the following adjustments in the accounting system and Q3 941:
If the 941 shows a credit for the first quarter on line 12e, then make the following adjusting general journal entry:

  1. Go to Adagio Ledger.

  2. Choose the period and date of the GJ entry based on whether the 941 for the second quarter shows an overpayment on line 15.

    If the Q2 941 shows an overpayment, then specify the period that has July 1, 2010 in it for the entry. If you have no outstanding balance in Q2 (line 15=0) then you put this GJ in the period that includes April 1, 2010.

  3. Debit the liability account for US SS for the first quarter credit. Credit the US SS expense account.

  4. Run Payroll/Configure/Taxes to update the US SS current liability. Reduce the existing amount by the amount of the first quarter credit from the 941.

If the 941 shows an overpayment for the second quarter on line 15:

  1. If you are applying the overpayment to the third quarter, then you will want to update the third quarter 941 to reflect that you are applying the overpayment. Run Payroll/Print Q3 941 and add the overpayment (941 line 15) to line 11. The software will add to that amount when remittances are calculated at the end of the quarter.

  2. If you get a refund check, you should post the check amount to the SS expense account.
NOTE:If the conditions for doing the GJ are met, then for the present the G/L account balances in the Payroll data will not get updated to reflect the first quarter credit. And the US SS liability account(s) will be overstated by the amount of the credit.

This will cause a special situation that the user will need to handle in remittance check processing. The liability from the G/L Account balance relating to US SS will be overstated creating an "Undistributed amount" condition in the Remittance Checks processing. The undistributed amount should be the amount of any first quarter credit. The user will need to reduce the US SS liability G/L account balance by that amount to create a balanced, valid entry. We intend to provide a resolution to this G/L account balance discrepancy in a future update.

This information is also available as Technical Note 403

I can't log in multiple times with the same User ID.
January 2010
You are seeing a message something like this:
Error: the user ID entered is already logged in at <company_name>.
The latest software update permits each User ID to be logged in to 21st Century Payroll only once. Each person in the office who works on 21st Century Payroll needs a separate, unique User ID. Go to System/User IDs and assign each person in your office their own User ID to log in with. Passwords aren’t required.
Message Issue: Pervasive not running
May 2010
The message is:
Warning: The Pervasive Database engine is not running at the location of the company data <company_name> on <computer_name>. This may impact company selection or use, especially in a multi-user environment.
Single-user version
 If you have a single-user version of the 21st Century program and installed from a workstation to another network computer (server) and use the program from the workstation, then this situation would be expected and you may disregard this message.
Multi-user version
If you have a multi-user version, then all computers that contain the 21st Century program and/or data should have the Pervasive Software installed and active at all times. You should check <computer_name> to make sure the Pervasive Software is installed and functioning properly.
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