We've never come across this until this year - we had to book GTL taxable (employer paid over $50,000) income to a group of employees who were shut off in error for a number of months. By the time the problem was noticed several employees were not longer employed.

We are now showing a out of balance on SS and Medicare taxes because we booked the income to the employee, we paid the employer portion, and have nothing to collect the employee's portion from. I set up the new employee group on the HR55, added an employee to test on the HR55.2, and added the info to the PR27 box 12 Code M,N and tried a test W-2 and it won't get past the error message about the taxed being out of balance.

The error reads "6000S (process level) Total Social Security in arrears of $1.62 and Total Medicare in arrears of $.38.

Anyone else have to do this? How do you set it up? I was on hold with Lawson for over 20 mins on Friday and finally gave up..

Thanks in advance for any tips!

When you say you "can't get past the error", what do you mean? That's a soft edit, and won't prevent a W2 from printing for the employee. Another question - you are processing the GTL through PR correct (I know that's a silly question, but it IS early)....

I am running this thru PR :D I figured the more I can clean these things up while it's a little quieter the better off I'll be come January 2008..

I just tried to run the PR297 for one employee again and I didn't get the error message this time, but the report only shows Box 12 with the C code for the regular GTL, nothing for M or N.

The regular GTL is run each payroll.