Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance (SUTA/UCI)

Use Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance (SUTA/UCI) to maintain state and federal unemployment tax rates and limits in the SUTA and UCI tables.

For additional information, click More.

Directions:

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• Opening Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance, click More.

   

  1. Click Payroll from the Menu Bar.

  2. Click Miscellaneous File Maintenance.

  3. Click Table FM.

  4. Click Numeric Tables.

  5. Click Unemployment Tax (SUTA & UCI).
     
     Tip:  Or, use the keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [p] [m] [n] [u].

   

  Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance Window Example:

  Note:  The tax limits and rates depicted in the following table are only an example.  Actual tax withholding information is published annually.

  

   

• Creating a new unemployment tax table, click More.

   

  Note:  You can not create any new unemployment tax tables.  The necessary tables are created during the software installation and updates.  To maintain the tax tables, see the instructions for editing later in this topic.

   

• Editing the unemployment tax tables, click More.

   

  CAUTION:  To avoid losing data, you must save changed records.

  1. To display the record to be changed, simply open Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance.  The record automatically displays.

  2. To position the pointer to the information that you want to change, press [TAB] or click the field using the mouse.

  3. Enter the data changes.

  4. To complete the edit process, click Save , or press [ENTER].
     Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + s]

   

  Unemployment Tax Table Maintenance Prompts Tip:  To see more information about a field, click the hyperlink for the field name.
  Table ID	The program sets the Table IDs to SUTA and UCI. Tip:  Although you only need to maintain one window, this maintenance is actually for two tables, each table containing a single record.
  	To update the changed information, click Save or press [ENTER]. Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + s]
  	CAUTION To avoid losing data, you must save the changed record.
  	Search is not active for this program.
  	Retrieve is not required in this program.
  Title	Enter the Table Title, which is an abbreviated name for the table.  (up to 14 characters)
  Description	Enter the Table Description, which is the full name of the table.  (up to 79 characters)
  FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX (FUTA)
  Federal UCI Limit	Enter the FUTA Limit, which is the annual gross earnings cap that determines the wage base for calculating the federal UCI.  (6.2 numeric)
  Federal Rate	Enter the FUTA Rate used for calculating the federal UCI.  (6.2 numeric)
  STATE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX (SUTA)
  State	The SUTA rate is set for your facility by each applicable state.  To specify which state unemployment tax information you want to maintain, click the State Code in the drop-down list.  (predefined)
  State UCI Limit	Enter the SUTA Limit, which is the annual gross earnings cap that determines the wage base for calculating the state unemployment tax contribution.  (6.2 numeric)
  SUTA Contribution Rate	Enter the SUTA Rate used for calculating the state unemployment tax contribution.  (6.2 numeric) Tip:  The state determines your facility's SUTA rate, which is usually based on your facility's unemployment claim history.

   

• Deleting an existing unemployment tax table, click More.

   

  Note:  To maintain data integrity, you can not delete any unemployment tax tables.