NC Unemployment wage base for 2022 is not up to date

Um, your reply did NOT help me.  This is kind of ridiculous, and I really don't have time to waste on this --- or to remember in the future.

I have the letter from NC saying limit is increased to $28,000. 

The official NC website says the limit is increased to $28,000.

And QB updates do NOT reflect it. 

How hard is it for QB to verify and make this change?  Why do I instead have to add a new payroll addition, or later spend time making adjustments, instead of having this simple change made --- especially as it has certainly been brought to your attention?  Or at the very least --- allow ME to make the adjustment. I mean, y'all trust me to make the tax rate adjustment on my own, but not to make the wage base adjustment?  That's just poor performance. This is irritating and time consuming and just plain dumb.

Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm also NC employer....

RenjolynC,

Intuit has not resolved this.  Can you give us a timeframe when you expect the update will be pushed out to change the NC unemployment wage base for 2022?  

Thanks!

Thanks for following this thread, @cheryljo. 

At the moment, we don't have a specific timeframe as to when will this be available. We will get back to this thread when we receive updates. 

For future reference, check out our year-end resources to learn more about completing necessary tasks in QuickBooks. 

Let me know if you have additional questions. We're always around to help in any way we can. 

NC withholding tax tables have not been updated either.  According to the info I have the latest update 22201.  There's no state updates for NC.

So we just need to wait for a new update in payroll for the Wage Base change? Why isn't it done at the beginning of the year?

Greeting, Leighanne. 

Allow me share some additional information about the  wage base change.

Yes, we need to wait for the new update since the state agency updates about the wage change every year. 

When an update is available, a pop-up will appear automatically. You can manually update your tax table if you missed it.

Here's how: 

1. Go to the Employees tab.
2. Choose Get Payroll Updates. 
3. Select Download entire payroll update radio button.
4. Click update. 

Check out this article for updates on tax rates for your convenience: Latest payroll news and updates

If you want to review your employee's wage base, you can run the Payroll Detail Review report in QuickBooks. For more details about it, please see this article: Payroll tax and wage base limits.

For future reference, check out this article: Edit or Delete Payroll Checks (Paychecks and Liability Checks). It helps you learn about how to modify paychecks that haven't sent to payroll service. 

Let me know in the comment section if you have more payroll questions or any QuickBooks-related concerns. I'm here to help you.

Ok - once again Intuit cannot get this right - as previously stated, the wage base had been updated for several months to 28K - I agree we do not have time to monitor this manually - that is actually a ridiculous statement.  I have several payroll where this will reached in the first 5 or 6 weeks of the year.  Seems pretty simple to do.  Once again we pay a lot of money for this product and are constantly asked to do more on the user end, does not seem like a company that actually cares about their customers - but since we don't have a lot options I guess that's what Intuit will continue to do.

I spent 20-30 minutes with a tech who was very sure that my updates weren't in fact updating only to finally figure out that this hasn't been included in the update.  This after receiving instruction from my post to contact support.

1.  I don't have time for this either

2.  Your tech should be made aware of this issue so we aren't wasting time on this

3.  This seems to be an ongoing issue (at least I see annual posts on it)

4.  Make all of our lives easier and just make it a manual field that the user can change.

The same thing happened last year too. I have set a task to keep getting payroll updates and checking to see if it has been updated. It was still incorrect as of 2 days ago. As was mentioned, the new max has been known for a while. They are charging a ridiculous $500 a year for payroll updates. It should have shown up on Jan 1. If they can't do their job, then at least let us edit it ourselves. We have to go in and put in our rate in anyway. It would take 2 seconds to update that at the same time.

This is one of the many reasons I hate Quickbooks. Unfortunately, they have cornered the market.

As of today, 1/26/22, the SUTA wage base for NC still has not been updated!  When will this be updated?

Hi there, Kbatts1968. 

As of now, the Payroll Update 22202 (January 13, 2022) for North Carolina only includes new withholding tables. As for the new state unemployment rate for NC, there's no update yet coming from the state agency. Here's an article you can refer to for more details about the latest payroll news and updates. 

For now, we can adjust the new state unemployment rate in QuickBooks to keep your payroll records accurate. Here's how:

1. Go to the Employees menu, then choose Payroll Taxes and Liabilities.
2. Select Adjust Payroll Liabilities. 
3. Choose the period in the Date fields. 
4. Select if the adjustment is for the company or an employee:

• Employee Adjustment if the item you're adjusting is company-paid. It updates the YTD info reported on the employee W-2 form.
• Company Adjustment if you want the balance to be removed from the Payroll Liability Balances Report.

  5. In the Item Name column, choose the State Unemployment Insurance. Then, complete the Taxes and Liabilities fields.

  6. Select Accounts Affected and then OK.

• Do not affect accounts to leave balances unchanged for the liability and expense accounts. The adjustment will only change the year-to-date amounts on your payroll reports.
• Affect liability and expense accounts to enter an adjusting transaction in the liability and expense accounts.

Then, repeat if you need to adjust employees, and select OK. Here's an article you can refer to for more details about adjusting payroll liabilities in the software. Once the new rate is included in the latest payroll updates, just follow the steps in this article to update your State Unemployment Insurance rate: Update your State Unemployment Insurance (SUI) rate in QuickBooks or Intuit Payroll. 

Feel free to browse this link here if you need help with other tasks in QuickBooks Payroll. It'll route you to our general payroll topics with articles.

The Community always has your back, and I'm just a post away if you need a hand with processing your taxes and payroll forms. Just leave a comment below and I'll get back to you. Take care always.

@RCV This is not the issue.  The issue is in the WAGE BASE in SUI, not the tax rate. Please fix the WAGE BASE. EVERY NC payroll client Intuit has using Quickbooks desktop is at Intuit's mercy until you change it.  As of today, Intuit is almost a month late in getting this updated for their clients.  The wage base was published almost two months ago.

Hi there, astewart. 

Allow me to share additional information on our latest payroll updates including the Taxable wage base. 

 I've checked our last payroll update, and it appears we haven't updated the rates and limits yet. Once updated, QuickBooks will automatically pro-rate based on payrolls that have been running already this year, so you won't need to worry about manually changing any information.

I recommend checking out our latest payroll news and updates for updated information on what we release in each payroll update.

You can check out these articles for future reference in handling your state wage base limit: 

• Entering wage base and tax adjustment to correct employee's quarter (qtd) or year to date (ytd) total.
• Payroll tax wage bases and limits

You're more than welcome to visit this thread again if you have other questions. Just add the details of your concern here and I'll help you out.

Honestly, this whole thing could be avoided by simply giving the user the ability to change this at the same time that we change our unemployment rates.  As another user noted, every NC QB user is at your mercy to make a change that they are already aware of.  If you require official notification of the wage base it can be found here:

https://des.nc.gov/employers/tax-rate-information