Washington Cares setup

Thank you for the detailed information about setting up the Washington Cares Fund payroll tax, BrianHart.

You're right that there isn't a manual process of setting up the new tax. That's why you need to download install the payroll update 22201 completely.

Here's how:

1. Go to Employees, then select Get Payroll Updates.
2. Select the Download Entire Update checkbox.
3. Click Download Latest Update. An informational window appears when the download is complete.

Then, follow again this link to guide you through the process: Set up Washington Cares Fund payroll tax.

If you're still unable to see the prompt, I recommend contacting our QuickBooks Desktop Live Team. They can check this for you by pulling up your account and retrieving the setup.

Please get back to me if you have additional questions about setting up the Washington Cares fund. I'm always around to help you.

l should have mentioned that I had already downloaded 22201 previously and had re-downloaded 22201  last night as part of a full payroll update last night to ensure I had done everything possible before writing this post. That did not trigger anything that re-offered the setup. I also went to the Preferences option to restore all one-time messages, but that did not trigger the setup option either.

My payroll person is apparently in the office now logged onto their only QuickBooks computer trying to get payroll done. Your link on how to contact payroll support starts within QuickBooks, but I work remotely, so I cannot get into this client's QuickBooks while she is logged onto that computer.

She says something created the deduction, but she had to go into each employee's profile and add it to the employees. I believe that the system was supposed to offer to do that for us. I hope she did it correctly. I guess we will see what happens when she prints the paychecks in a bit.