How to get payroll checks to add withholdings

Good to see you on the Community page, @teagueinc50.

I hope your day is going well. I'd be glad to assist you in adding withholdings in QuickBooks Desktop.

I highly recommend updating your payroll tax table first to ensure QuickBooks will calculate the withholdings correctly. Then, you can follow these steps below:

1. Go to the Employees menu at the top.
2. Choose Get Payroll Updates.
3. Click the Download Entire Update.
4. Select Download Latest Update.

Once done, you can now add extra withholding on an employee's paycheck. Here are the steps:

1. Click the Employees menu.
2. Choose Employee Center.
3. Double-click the employee's name.
4. Go to the Payroll Info tab.
5. Select Taxes.
6. In the Extra Withholding field, enter the additional withholding amount.
7. Click OK.

The extra withholding amount will add to the existing Federal Withholding item. You can run the Payroll Detail Review report to check the amounts per employee.

You can visit this article for reference and learn more about other report features: Customize payroll and employee reports.

Please know that I'm always available to help with any of your QuickBooks needs. Just let me know by posting a response.                                      

When you run the Payroll Detail Report - how can you see if the entered extra withholding amount is actually being taken out? All you see is the total federal being withheld in the report.

But when you run the Payroll Detail Report - how can you see the exact extra withholding amount being taken out? The report only show you the TOTAL being withheld.

Is there anyway for an employee to get verification that the additional amounts requested are being withheld?

Thanks for your prompt response, @SL20.

Yes, there are available reports where you can see the extra withholding taken out from the payroll items.

In addition to my colleague's response, @MadelynC, you can pull up either the Payroll Transaction Detail or Payroll Item Detail report to show these amounts.

Here's how:

1. In QuickBooks, go to the Reports menu.
2. Select Employees & Payroll.
3. Choose Payroll Transaction Detail or Payroll Item Detail report.

To review the report, you can double click the amount withheld and then click the Paycheck Detail button on the paycheck window to evaluate the withholding.

Currently, we're unable to give verification to the additional amounts requested that are being withheld. Please know that I'll take note of this one. I know this will help a lot when we can verify the employees for the additional amounts withheld.

In the meantime, you can check the payroll updates by utilizing the Help menu to spot more news about this integration. Then select the Update QuickBooks Desktop to see any related updates.

I'd also suggest visiting the articles shared by my colleague about customizing reports to narrow down the details of any statements in QuickBooks.

Feel free to tag me (@Jovychris_A) if you have additional questions. I'll always ready to help. Take care and more power to your business!

Is it possible to have extra withholding on the second paycheck of the month?  An employee only wants to have $100/mo withheld but wants it to come from his second paycheck of the month.