Intuit/QB is getting way to invasive!!!  This is complete BS.  It's my choice how I file taxes not QB.

I'm also disgusted with the notices to log-in to the web-site on startup and the new backup automation notice.

There is a wonderful opportunity for someone to create an Accounting Software that worked like QB 10 years ago. I be glad to buy it!

I'm just having this problem too.  I log into Virginia's web site to do most of my virginia payroll tasks.  I do not want to set up epay through quickbooks.  I need an option to pay by check, so I can continue processing the payroll. 

Virginia has said you need to epay and efile; however, there are 3 ways to accomplish this.  First online at VEC with their eforms, which you can fill out and then make a payment online.  Second, through the VEC Business Ifile, which is a system you log into, input your information and make payments through VEC Ifile website.  This is the system that most people are using -- you can access your rate changes, make contact with VEC, look at your history, all very simple and the system is still in use.  The third method for large employers is web upload, but I think this is only half of the step.  In any event, the 'mandate to efile/epay' does not mean that Intuit needs to railroad everyone into doing this through a mandatory Quickbooks epay/efile.   Intuit/quickbooks did not need to do this.  Put it all back how it was, please.

Thank you Edgemont1, it worked on my practice computer like a charm.  Now I can sleep. I hope.

I pay this unemployment tax and file the unemployment forms online through the Virginia Tax website, IREG, not through quickbooks. I am grateful that quickbooks supplies the filled out form but please correct this problem. I run pay liabilities check on blank paper and file it in my Payroll taxes file for everything. Even the 941's, which are paid through eftps, are run on blank paper and filed with payroll.

It won't let me put a dummy routing number into that field. I'm guessing it won't work for me.

Seems you dont read the conversation, that is not the solution, there isn't any option to change to print 

Let's get you to the right support team who can help change the filing method, ECS.

You can follow the steps shared by Edgemont1 in this thread. If you're getting the same results, I recommend contacting our QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Team. They can access your account in a secure environment and provide additional steps so you can print the form.

Here's how to contact them:

1. Open QuickBooks.
2. Go to Help, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
3. Select Contact Us.
4. Enter your concern, then select Continue.
5. Choose a way to connect with us:
   • Get a callback from an expert (availability may be limited).
   • Start messaging with a support expert.

Also, make sure that your payroll tax table is updated before contacting our support team. Check out this link to download the update :Payroll Update 22112 (June 24, 2021) 

Let me know if you have need additional information about this commenting below. I'll be right here whenever you have follow-up questions about printing the VA form.

I'm small business owner , I have been using QB for 11 years, this people milk our businesses every year , either payroll software, Qb software and i also have QB Tsheets because they acquire the company a year ago, what we should do is to file a complain  and get signatures because it should be illegal  to force us  to use QB to file our taxes thought them  if we already using the VA portal , you will see later on they will charge a fee to use its platform, seems with QB money its never enough  

I totally agree with you!!! QB is NOT addressing the problem. I have been reading all of the comments for a couple of months now, QB just does NOT get it, so very frustrating. I did file my VEC quarterly (2nd), and it was not necessarily a pain, just not the way we used to. I pulled up the report, now a different name and format, and printed it for my records, then closed the form. Used that info, from the form & filed via the state iFile. When posting payment in QB, i wrote a check (didn't think about going through custom payments). This deducted the amount from payroll liabilities, and seemed to work as it should, only time will tell. But QB needs to fix this mandatory epay for VEC!!

To @rbent  Go ahead and connect it to your real checking account you normally write your business checks from. It still won't eFile anything unless you specifically tell it to, but this will then make the system think its set up to be ABLE to eFile and will then let you see and print the VEC form (now called UI QTD Report in the Forms list).

Now you can see your form and you can pay the old fashioned way with a check in your system by using Create Custom Payments at the bottom, then going to VA online system like you always did and iFile yourself instead of thru QB.

Hope this helps!

All well and good, it works, but I DO NOT WANT QB to have my banking information.  FIX THIS NOW

I feel like a dummy but having the same problems everyone else is with VA unemployment.  I already paid on the VA website and can't clear the liability from the list or balance my bank stagement.  How do I set up a dummy bank account.

Hello, va doc. 

I'm here to show you how to add a dummy bank account. You can follow these steps:

1. Select Chart of Accounts from the Lists menu.
2. Press Ctrl + N on your keyboard. On the pop-up, select Bank, then Continue.
3. Enter the details needed. You can name it something like "Dummy Bank", then tap Save & Close.

In addition, I won't recommend mixing dummy or sample transactions into your live company file. Instead, you'll want to use our sample file and do the test deposit from there. 

1. Close your company file.
2. In the No Company Open window, select Open a Sample File and choose any from the list of sample company files.

Need a reference in setting up your bank feeds? Check this article: Get started with Bank Feeds for QuickBooks Desktop. 

Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with. I've got your back. Thanks again for dropping by, wishing you and your business all the best. Stay safe!

This is BULL! Quickbooks can fix this.....they just won't! They want more control over our accounts!

Hello AileneA,

I have tried to do this multiple times. Then I have to choose the "Dummy Bank Account" for my epayments under Manage Payment Methods in Payroll. I choose the dummy account and choose edit because it has to have an account number and a 9 digit routing number. When I try to put in a "fake" routing number, it won't let me save it because the routing number is not valid. Somehow quickbooks recognizes that it's not valid.

And, when you say: in addition, I won't recommend mixing dummy or sample transactions inito my live company file and instead I want to use your sample company files.....I don't understand what you're talking about.

So, again, the dummy account will not work. Please make a modification on your end to just be able to choose "check" as my method of payment for the Virginia Unemployment payments.

Thank you

Robin

Thank you so very much. I had already done that and filed and paid online. It just looks like I have a liability outstanding, well, due by July 30th that I can't do anything with. I'm still holding out hope that Quickbooks will fix this before then. 

1- file on VEC like normal. 

2- Then go to QB

3-.  Click on Help/ About Quickbooks (or in my case About Intuit Quickbooks Enterprise....)

4-Then when that screen pops up, click CTRL ATL Y,

5-click next 4 times until you come to Prior Payment Screen. 

6- Click "CREATE PAYMENT" 

7-Select dates as appropriate

8-Click "NEXT PAYMENT"

9-Fill in the necessary information

10-Select Accounts Affected 

11- choose Affect liability and bank accounts; OK

12- click DONE - and this removes your liability from your pay liabilities screen :)

Good Luck!

Thank you!  This seems to work.

I've figured it out a way around this and am sharing in case any of you haven't found the answer yet.

At the top of the screen

- Click on "Employees"

- Go down to "Payroll Taxes and Liabilities"

- Click on "Custom Liability Check"

Pick your Quarter or Timeframe, and it pulls a list of all of the taxes available for payment for the timeframe selected. You can create a check to pay VEC (or another Liability) this way! Sorry quickbooks wasn't willing to help any of us!!

I've figured it out and am sharing in case any of you haven't found the answer yet.

At the top of the screen

- Click on "Employees"

- Go down to "Payroll Taxes and Liabilities"

- Click on "Custom Liability Check"

Pick your Quarter or Timeframe, and it pulls a list of all of the taxes available for payment for the timeframe selected. You can create a check to pay VEC (or another Liability) this way! Sorry quickbooks wasn't willing to help any of us!!

I don't know why they posted this same thing 3 times!! I'm so sorry! Please see the above post, thanks!

They posted it three times because it works.   It did for me.

Thank you!!!! It worked!!!

Quickbooks still needs to get this resolved!!!!