CRA clearly states:
Current source deductions remittance voucher – Form PD7A
Gross payroll in remitting period (dollars only): enter the total of all remuneration that you paid before you made any deductions such as income tax. Include regular wages, commissions, overtime pay, paid leave, taxable benefits and allowances, piecework payments, and special payments. This is the monthly amount that you will include in box 14, T4 employment income, on your employees’ T4 slips. (italics mine)
To me this is pretty clear . . . what earnings you report on the PD7A remittances ultimately must match the T4 Summary. I have been using QB Desktop since the early 1990's, and I have yet to see the PD7A report include taxable benefits. As a result, I have been making my own PD7A in Excel, and producing reports out of Desktop to capture the taxable benefits and allowances included in each payroll, so I can report the accurate amount of earnings for each remittance period.
I think my question is obvious . . . why? Why have earnings on the PD7A report NEVER matched earnings on the T4 Summary? If I could, I would use the T4 Summary for remittances, but you can't choose any other date periods than a complete year which is very frustrating. QB Desktop gets a lot of things right . . . more right than QBO, . . . but this, unfortunately, is not one of them. Giving a shout out to @LauraAB . . . can you comment?
