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Accounting News
Problems, outages, and quirks that QuickBooks users are reporting — tracked and explained by the desk.
Payroll
QuickBooks can prefill most of Hawaii's quarterly unemployment insurance form UC-B6, but employers still need to verify wages, excess calculations, and filing requirements.
Payroll
How QuickBooks populates the Hawaii Quarterly Wage and Unemployment Insurance report, which fields need manual review, and where the calculated numbers come from.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills Kentucky Form K-1 withholding data, but employers must know their filing frequency thresholds and deadlines to file correctly.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Maine's quarterly UC-1 unemployment form, but e-filing is now mandatory and certain fields still need manual attention.
Payroll & Forms
How to complete the CRS-1 Combined Report Form (Long Form) in QuickBooks, including municipality reporting, special codes, and location codes.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most fields on the New Mexico ES903A payroll report, but account number format changes and e-filing rules trip up users preparing quarterly wage submissions.
Payroll
QuickBooks Desktop users working with payroll tax forms can run into locked fields, validation errors, and printing confusion. Here is what works.
Payroll
Louisiana employers using QuickBooks face confusion over Form L-3 transmittal rules, e-file mandates, and account-number requirements for annual wage statements.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Form TX-17 for Rhode Island employers, but filing thresholds, penalty rules, and manual fields still trip up payroll users each quarter.
Payroll
QuickBooks users filing Virginia Form VA-6 find withholding amounts blank because no Payment Type is selected — here is what triggers the fields and how to file correctly.
Payroll
QuickBooks generates an Alabama A-1 worksheet for quarterly withholding, but the worksheet itself cannot be filed directly with the state agency.
Payroll Forms
QuickBooks prefills most fields on Alabama's quarterly withholding return, but employers remain responsible for verifying account details and electronic filing thresholds.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Alabama's Form A-3 annual withholding reconciliation, but employers remain responsible for verifying all variable data before filing.
Payroll
How QuickBooks handles Arizona's quarterly withholding tax return, what gets prefilled, and which liability sections employers must complete.
Payroll
A guide to understanding and filing the Georgia G-7 Schedule B quarterly return for semi-weekly state withholding tax payers using QuickBooks.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Iowa's quarterly unemployment form, but account-number formatting, blank fields, and e-file limits cause recurring filing problems for employers.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Rhode Island's quarterly unemployment tax form, but employers should understand e-filing thresholds, due dates, and penalty risks before submitting.
Payroll
QuickBooks users preparing Idaho Form 967 encounter questions about pre-filled fields, 1099 withholding inclusion, and read-only company data that cannot be edited on the form itself.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most fields on the Kansas KW-5 withholding deposit report, but Kansas requires online filing and specific EFT steps to complete submission.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most of Kentucky Form K-1, but account-number formatting and filing-frequency rules still trip up payroll users. Here is what to check.
Payroll
QuickBooks includes a built-in payroll report for Louisiana Form L-1 reconciliation. Here is what the form requires and how to produce the report.
Payroll
QuickBooks users filing Maine Form UC-1 for non-seasonal wages can resolve missing employee wage data by checking the seasonal indicator in employee setup.
Payroll
QuickBooks prefills most fields on Missouri's employer withholding return, but filers must verify filing frequency thresholds and due dates before submitting.
Errors
QuickBooks may display internal list-record errors when company data is damaged, and the accepted fix is the built-in Rebuild Data utility.