I think I figured out a way...

Click on "Payroll Items" at the top of the screen, right above "Pay Liabilities" tab.

Right click on VA Unemployment item name.

Select "Pay Liabilities/Taxes".

Select range window pops up. Choose the appropriate dates.

A "Pay Liabilities" window opens.

Check the SUI line and click "Create".

In the "Payment History" area of the "Pay Liabilities" tab in the Employee Center now shows the check and has a status of "print".

I hope this works for everyone!

VA doesn't have an option for check. I paid last quarter VEC online. Well now I still have that dollar amount in my liabilities and I can't make it go into the check register. I don't want to pay through QB. 

It is now been 6-months since the update was done to take away the ability to pay VEC by check AND print out a copy of the return without adding banking information.  We were promised a fix within 3 months!! Is this EVER going to be fixed?

Was there ever a solution??? I of course am having the same issue as everyone else.  I have also spent hours on the phone with support.  The only way I was able to get my first two quarters entered is that I upgraded my program and entered the transactions before the payroll update that screwed everything up was installed. It is now October 2021 with no fix!

Was there ever a solution?? I of course am having the same issue as everyone else.  I have also spent hours on the phone with support. It is now October 2021 with no fix!

Thank you for joining this thread and I'm here to provide an update about filing VEC in QuickBooks, chugheshci.

QuickBooks Desktop no longer support paying e-pay for withholding taxes. I'm adding these links to help manage your returns to VA's website.

• Withholding Tax
• Tax Filing or Registration.

For additional resources about the filing process, I'm adding these articles.

• E-file state forms & e-pay state taxes separately 
• E-file and e-pay state tax forms together.

Keep me posted if there's anything else you need by commenting below., I'm always whenever you have follow-up questions about filing your VA returns.

Dear MaryLandT:

I don't understand this message you just posted.  Everyone complaining here has always been paying OUTSIDE the QB desktop system and already use those links you provided to file and pay our VA Unemployment quarterly taxes.

The issue is that QB Desktop took away the choice to "write check" when we pay our VEC liability in your Desktop system!  It forces only the choice of "ePay" which we do not want!  We want the choice to pay with "check" as we have with every other tax payment choice in the tax setup.

QB Desktop also took away the ability to create the VEC20 Form that we use to fill out the info online and that we keep as copies for our files.  Instead we now have only something called UI QTD Report, which shows similar info, but is NOT a VEC 20 Form.

As a result we are forced to use "Create Custom Payments" and take screen shots of the Form to try and piece together some semblance of what we always had until this last April!

Please bring back the VEC 20 Form and the ability to pay by "Check" in addition to "ePay"

Thanks

Last 2 quarterly filings, I used the QB report, went to the VEC website, and did my filing. Then posted in QBted with no problems by creating a check, used my payroll liability account, which had all liabilities owed for the stated time frame, checked off only the unemployment, and it completed the check, and that removed the liability for the quarter.

I'll make sure that you can pay your VEC liability on QuickBooks by check, @Edgemont1.

I'll walk you through the steps on how to retrieve the check option when paying the VEC liability in the QuickBooks Desktop. This way, you can use the feature as soon as possible. 

I'd recommend updating your payroll tax table. Then change the method of payment and filing in your account. To accomplish this, refer to the steps outlined by my colleagues jamespaul and ReymondO in this thread. 

In addition, you can also use the workaround provided by shirleywelldrilling. Let give a screenshot of the steps provided by Shirley to achieve your goal. 

As for the VEC20 Form that has been modified for the UI QTD Report, I'd suggest sending feedback about that. This way, our product engineers will know and take action accordingly. 

Here's how: 

1. Go to the Help menu, then choose Send Feedback Online. 
2. Select Product suggestions. 
3. Pick an appropriate Product Area and type your concern in the box. 
4. Click Send Feedback. 

Additionally, check out these articles below on how to access your state agency website and add payroll liability payments reminders to calendar programs in QuickBooks: 

• Payroll Tax Compliance Links
• Set up and pay scheduled or custom (unscheduled) liabilities

Hello, @TSMechanical.

Thank you for sharing your VEC filing experience in this thread. And I appreciate all the steps you've taken so far to submit the tax liabilities. 

For your future reference, check out the articles provided above to know the Virginia tax regulations. 

Dont hesitate to drop a comment below if you have further questions about your taxes. I'm always here to assist. Keep safe, @TSMechanical and @Edgemont1.

Dear MichelleBh:

Thanks, but if you look at the content and replies to the links you attached from jamespaul and ReymondO you will see that people are talking about NOT being able to choose the Form VEC-20 which is the Virginia Unemployment Quarterly Form.  It is not in the list!   Instead there's something called VA-16 which is not what we need and not what we file.

The choice of VEC-20 which was always there for years was mysteriously removed last April and when you set up your company Tax forms in Payroll Setup and filing methods VEC-20 does show there and forces only the choice of ePay, which we do not want.

It is what this thread is about.

I know we can somehow work around this by making "custom" payments or just writing a check and trying to choose a liability, but we want to have the system do what it always did and still does for ALL the other taxes: Create the correct Form (VEC-20), not "UI QTD" (which does not exist in the State of VA system), and Pay Liabilities like normal!

Also, FYI, when you run the "UI QTD" and "print" or "save" it - the file it saves is still named VEC-20, even though the form itself looks nothing like it.

Thanks

Thanks to all for your input.  I ran into the issue earlier this year after I had made my regular payment on ifile.  I just put off researching the issue and thanks to the help of this community, a work around was achieved.  I just upgraded to this enhanced payroll version this year.  I think I might go back to manual filings if I have more problems like this.  

This response has NOTHING to do with the whole thread it is responding to - your response is about VA withholding and the whole thread is about VA unemployment!  Not only that, you state that Quickbooks no longer does e-pay for VA withholding when it does.

There is no fix as yet but there is a work-around.  Start a payment for a different liability but change the liability, amount and vendor name to VEC information.  Then to print the form for your records (because they locked up the form unless all settings are as needed for e-pay) you need to have banking info assigned - I use an existing bank routing number (because the program knows if it isn't a valid one) and a bogus account number (just in case a certain button gets pushed accidentally) and then you can view and print the forms

No surprise.  This didn't work

YAY.  Finally something that works.  Still needs to be fixed by Quickbooks.  I DO NOT WANT TO efile Virginia Unemployment through Quickbooks

I had to do a roundabout. I went into Write Check. Under "Expenses" I selected the VA unemployment liability. It popped up with a message that said 'It appears you're about to pay your payroll liabilities." I clicked on the blue box Pay Payroll Liabilities. I selected the correct date. It brings up a list of all the payroll liabilities. I just checked the VA Unemployment Co line and clicked on Create. It created a check, took the amount out of the Pay Liabilities screen and removed the amount from the VA Unempl Liab account. 

Yes, this is the same effect as clicking "Custom Payment" at the bottom of the Pay Liabilities screen.  Either way it works for our purpose, yet we STILL can't get a property VEC-20 form to print for our files!

And we STILL want to have the "write check" option put back so we don't have to go thru this annoying shenanigans.  LOL

I had to do this method of create custom liability and it worked.  This isn't how it should be though qb needs to fix this.  I have my own setup on iReg and that is how I want to continue to do it.  This is very aggravating for what we pay.

is this mandatory or can I e file? I al ready paid 1st quarter thru efile!

I had epay for all of my taxes, I had to go into each State tax for California and update the payment method.  However, it won't allow me to choose epay for CA SDI, it's not even an option.