How to recalculate Federal Tax withholding on a completed payroll for one employee?

Wiesman · ‎April 23, 2019

I have completed payroll and one of my employees would like to increase her Federal Tax withholding for this pay period. So I went into the employee record and updated her Federal Tax Withholding. Now how do I fix her paycheck since payroll is complete? I have QB Desktop. I have not done any electronic transfers or written any checks. So I am thinking it should be fairly easy for QB to recalculate but I cannot figure it out.

JessT · ‎April 23, 2019

Hi Wiesman!

It's a good thing that you haven't processed the paycheck yet. The change will take effect going forward, so I suggest editing the existing paycheck to apply the change in the Federal Withholding tax.

From the Employees menu select the Employee center.
Choose the Transactions tab and select Paychecks.
Double-click the paycheck in concern and click the Paycheck Detail button.
Deselect and re-select the items in the Earnings table to recalculate the Federal Withholding amount.
Click OK.

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JessT · ‎April 23, 2019

Hi Wiesman!

It's a good thing that you haven't processed the paycheck yet. The change will take effect going forward, so I suggest editing the existing paycheck to apply the change in the Federal Withholding tax.

From the Employees menu select the Employee center.
Choose the Transactions tab and select Paychecks.
Double-click the paycheck in concern and click the Paycheck Detail button.
Deselect and re-select the items in the Earnings table to recalculate the Federal Withholding amount.
Click OK.

If there's anything that we can help, feel free to visit us back here.

Wiesman · ‎April 24, 2019

Thanks so much for the help! The only additional step was to click on the "Unlock Net Pay".

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