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Join nowSince the latest update in enhanced desktop payroll for accountants, I have a client that has not created a paycheck yet this year. But is still required to file the quarterly 941 report.
I had no problem creating a 941 report for the 1st Qtr with zero payroll, but now Qbooks won't create the form, it just shows up a button that says----no employees have been paid in the given year. Then refuses to let me create the 941 report!! In all my 16 years of doing payroll with Qbooks desktop, I have never seen this.
Has to be latest update because it worked just fine in April for the 941 report. I updated payroll, I tried to call my Proadvisor Tech support, but being a holiday, nobody there. Boo hoo, I am working today.
Anyway I finally created a dummy check dated in March to get the program to let me create a zero 2nd Qtr 941 report and efile it.
This is a brand new problem and I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
I know I am not the only one with small business clients that don't do many paychecks a year and they haven't been switched to the annual 944 form.
Thanks
Yes, many people have reported this bug here. It seems someone at Intuit thought it made sense, and so they put in a new rule to save you from yourself. Of course it doesn't make any sense at all.
The workaround support has come up with, since of course a workaround is required, is to create and void a paycheck in the current year and then you can create the form.
This is completely unacceptable. I have been a QuickBooks user since the beginning. I pay a huge amount to be a ProAdvisor with multiple licenses for online as well as desktop. I do not understand the rationale of not being to print zero reports for 941s and the "work around" is just silly. Please fix this bug ASAP. We are dealing with a 7/15 tax deadline and a payroll deadline and have multiple preparers.
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