Posted December 26, 2018 in Updates

Version 18.12.25.01

Note: For those districts that have the Web Link module, you will also need to be at Web Link version 18.12.25.01 (or higher, if applicable) since this update contains changes that affect both products simultaneously. Web Link updates must be downloaded through the File Transfer Center and installed on the web server.

Important Tax Information

Tax Tables with changes for 2019: Federal Income Tax, Social Security (limit change only), Iowa State Income Tax, Illinois State Income Tax, Maryland State Income Tax, Minnesota State Income Tax, Missouri State Income Tax, North Dakota State Income Tax, and Ohio State Income Tax

Tax Tables with NO changes for 2019: Federal Unemployment, Idaho State Income Tax, Kansas State Income Tax, Medicare, Montana State Income Tax, Nebraska State Income Tax, St. Louis Local Income Tax, Kansas City Local Income Tax, and Wisconsin State Income Tax

Tax Tables that have not yet been released: Colorado State Income Tax. The Department of Revenue has not yet released the state withholding tables for 2019. Once the tax tables are released, we will plan to prepare an additional release which will include the new tables.

States with unemployment Taxable Wage Base changes for 2019: Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, and Wyoming

States with NO unemployment Taxable Wage Base changes for 2019: Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota

Once you install the 18.12.25.01 update, you will have the released 2019 information for the federal, state and local income taxes and unemployment taxable wage base limits for applicable states. To view and verify this information, please print the appropriate documents using the links below. The tables in these documents MUST be compared to your tax information in the Taxes option under the Maintenance menu in Payroll prior to calculating your first payroll in January 2019.

If you are currently using the Negotiations module with the School Accounting System, the 2019 tax and unemployment information will update automatically upon installing the update.

Federal Taxes: https://docs.su-inc.com/taxes/Federal2019.pdf

Local Taxes:
Kansas City https://docs.su-inc.com/taxes/KansasCityLocal2019.pdf
St. Louis https://docs.su-inc.com/taxes/StLouisLocal2019.pdf

Main
- For those districts utilizing the K12Docs program, some additional backend enhancements have been added.
Main>Maintenance
- The system was returning an error if a From Email Address ID was deleted in Email Manager. This has been corrected.
General Ledger>Data Entry
- When using the grid entry tab in Cash Receipts for a recurring batch, if the amount was changed on a previously saved entry, the cash account was being reverted to the default value from the Fund File. This has been corrected.
General Ledger>Government Reporting
- Nebraska: The Educational Service Unit Annual Financial Report for 2017-2018 has been included in this update.
Payroll>Maintenance
- Because of changes to the Missouri W4 for 2019, the Does Your Spouse Work field has been removed from the taxes screen in the employee file. For Missouri customers, employees claiming Married Spouse Does Not Work on their W4 will be designated as tax table X, while Married Spouse Works will display tax table M. A new tax table has been added for Married Filing Separate and will use tax table O.
Payroll>Government Reporting
- Missouri: In the Missouri Retirement Report, if a custom field wage type contains multiple characters, only the first digit will be reported. Also, if an employee has an override wage type tied to their pay code in the employee file, the system was reporting those wages for both the override wage type and the default wage type. This has been corrected.
- South Dakota: The South Dakota Retirement System address has been updated on the SD Retirement Contribution Recap Report.
Payroll>Reports
- Employee Listing – Taxes Information: This report has been updated to remove the Spouse Work field.
- Employee Check Calculation Report: This report has been updated to remove the Does Your Spouse Work field.
Human Resources>Reports
- Employee Workers’ Compensation Injuries Report: If an injury also included a time, then when utilizing the Injury Date report parameter, the system was returning an error. This has been corrected.