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Hi there, PaulChoate,
I'm glad you reached out to me about how you can separate the liability/expense portion of the paychecks for the owner.
Thanks for adding specific details concerning what you're trying to accomplish with payroll. At the moment, we're unable to separate the owner's salary.
QuickBooks Desktop Payroll is designed to assign only one liability/expense account per payroll item/tax. You may want to consult an accountant how to handle this type of situtation.
If you have additional questions about payroll, let me know and I'll be here to help however I can.
Hi there, PaulChoate,
I'm glad you reached out to me about how you can separate the liability/expense portion of the paychecks for the owner.
Thanks for adding specific details concerning what you're trying to accomplish with payroll. At the moment, we're unable to separate the owner's salary.
QuickBooks Desktop Payroll is designed to assign only one liability/expense account per payroll item/tax. You may want to consult an accountant how to handle this type of situtation.
If you have additional questions about payroll, let me know and I'll be here to help however I can.
Can this be done now on QB Online? I would also like to differentiate owner's salary as a separate expense category.
I appreciate you coming in asking for an update, Ccb123.
The ability to differentiate the owner's salary as a separate expense category is still unavailable in QuickBooks Desktop. You'll want to consult an accountant for expert ways on how to handle this.
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I have a question about separating the employer liability portion of paychecks (such as owner matched taxes, SS, unemployment, etc.) for checks written to the owner who is considered an employee of the S-corporation?  For example I (the owner) can allocate my weekly salary to operate/run the company to an expense sub-account I call, "Owner's Salary" under the parent expense account called,  "Payroll Expenses Non-COGS" but I am unable to create a 2nd tax-based PAYROLL ITEM for Owner's payroll expenses (such as owner matched taxes, SS, unemployment, etc.) that I can then allocate to another subaccount in my "Payroll Expenses Non-COGS" that I'd call "Owner's Match Non-COGS". These payroll expenses can only be allocated to one Tax-based payroll item which I have linked to a sub-account called "Owner's Match" under MY COGS parent account.  There is no way to separate owner's salary payroll expenses from employee labor payroll expenses because I can't duplicate payroll items that can be allocated to different accounts...QuickBooks doesn't allow me to create more than one Tax based account that will allow me to separate Non-COGS expenses from COGS expenses. Does this make sense?
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