Payroll liability check pay period dates in memo only shows pay period end date.

We're glad you've posted here in the Community space, KJ-10. I'll ensure your printed payroll liability check accurately reflects the full-time frame of the paid check.

Let's ensure you've turned on this feature in your QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) account to ensure correct formatting in preparation for printing. Refer to the steps below and the screenshot for visual reference.

1. Go to Edit and click Preferences.
2. Navigate to Payroll & Employees.
3. Hit Company Preferences and Pay Stub & Voucher Printing.
4. Tick the Pay period in check memo option.
5. Click Ok.

Once done, reprint your check and see if it includes the complete pay period. 

Otherwise, you can manually modify the pay period information before printing your payroll liability check. It allows you to display the complete pay period range rather than just the single pay date on the check.

Additionally, if you plan on creating a payroll summary report to see what you've paid out in your QuickBooks payroll in the future, refer to these helpful resources:

• Create a payroll summary report in QuickBooks.
• Customize payroll and employee reports.
• Fix a discrepancy on the Payroll Liability Balances report in QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

Keep us posted for updates and if you have more queries printing your payroll liability check or QBDT in general. This thread is always available to assist you further. Take care.

RE: When printing a check to pay payroll tax liabilities the memo only shows the "pay date" for the payroll period...

A couple of points:

- Payroll Liability checks are not related to any pay period(s), but to a payment period.

- They never show a pay period or a pay date, except by happenstance, depending on how you created the payment.

Payroll liabilities are paid by payment period. For example, you may have to pay your liabilities once per month for the accrued liabilities from the prior month, in turn accrued because paychecks were dated in that month (paydays were in that month) - regardless of the pay periods for those paydays.

To get back to your question, if you paid your liabilities using a payment schedule, I'd expect the dates on the liability payment checks to reflect that schedule, like a month or a week or so on. If you paid them using the custom feature (the old pay liabilities feature of yesteryear) then the dates will likely be the dates you filtered for, even one day, as you created the payment.

Could it be you did that and filtered for only one date?