Dynamics GP 9.0 Resolving SS Issues Caused by Different Percentage Employee and Employer Contribs Computers Articles | January 8 Steven Stamkos Canada Jersey , 2012 In January of 2011 Social Security contributions from Employee and Employer sides are no longer equal or historically referred as ?match?.? Employee contribution portion was reduced to 4.2% while employer part is still calculated at 6.2%.? If you are current with Microsoft Business Solutions GP annual enhancement contract then you should consider upgrade either to version 2010 (formerly announced as 11.0) or at least 10.0.? Both these releases are supported by MBS technical support team and all you need to do is apply regular US Payroll tax updates.
Some updates are packaged with current service pack and some of them are coming in the form of CAB files.? Service pack applying is minor surgery and we recommend it to be scheduled toward the end of the week when all the users could be logged off.? There is common misunderstanding on what could be done to enable 4.2 and 6.2 rates for older version such as 9.0.? We would like to cover this gap in this small publication:
1.?Important consideration is if release 9.0 was under support in December of 2010 and January of 2011 when Round One and Round Two of Tax update were released.? And in fact it was supported at that time.? Round Two actually has the split from one field for FICA to two staying for employee and employer portions
2.?So is it possible to decouple FICA for 9.0?? You bet it is possible.? Call your provider and have them apply Tax Update for 2011 released in late January of 2011 for 9.0.? There are both CAB file for tables update and service pack with all patches applied
3.?How to be sure that the work is done?? We recommend you to look at table UPR41302 and verify that now you have rows with FICAS and EFICS by TAXCODE column.? Then be sure that you applied service pack associated with the update as if not then business logic doesn?t know that it has to look at EFICS (employer percentage for FICA)