Many companies have employees who live outside the state in which they work. For example, if your business is located in Chicago, you may have an employee who lives in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin. Sage 50 uses the State field in the Withholding Information table of the Maintain Employees/Sales Reps window to take advantage of the possibilities of multi-state companies. Most businesses are typically required to pay only the state unemployment tax (SUI) in the state in which the company actually resides. Therefore, we must adapt the state SUI ER formula to look at all state/localities and not just the one in which the company resides.
There are three steps to this procedure:
Note: You must subscribe to one of the Sage Business Care plans to modify payroll formulas and to have withholdings calculated within Sage 50.