I have to put my employee benefits into three separate departments. I can get the group benefits to split but cannot get the CPP and EI to separate. I have to manually do this each pay. I have set up each employee into the departments as I thought that would help. I have been told that it is a problem with QuickBooks that was going to be fixed. Any ideas would be greatly appreicated.

Your departments must be set-up as classes in QuickBooks. If they are, you need to set a preference to separate taxes into classes.
Open Preferences, choose Payroll & Employee icon, and choose Company Preferences.
Put a check mark beside “Report all payroll taxes by Customer:Job, Service Item, and Class.”
Choose “Assign one class per” depending on the way you work.
When you make a P&L report subtotalled by class, all taxes will be assigned to the proper department.

Michael R. Malo
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What I am looking for is for the employee benefits to go to the separate departments on a "transaction detail by account" report. I am only using Quick books to do payroll. My business system is unix based so I have to do some manual work as it is. I am trying to use the report to be my journal entry sheet.

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