Fica Exempt Employees for HIRE Act

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HAYES
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What is the best way to handle the setup for employees exempt from the employer portion of FICA as defined by the HIRE Act?
Shane Jones
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We are not expecting that we will have that many eligible ... (in our environment) So we are just going to manually adjust the 941 each quarter. If you have a bunch you might need a better solution.

Have you opened a ticket with Lawson yet?
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HAYES
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Thanks for your reply. I opened a case with Lawson yesterday and they are working on a solution. They instructed to watch their website for updates.
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Lawson has issued a statement of direction on mylawson.com for this topic. For now, we are going to add employees to the group as we receive their W-11s and place T's in their PR14 records. This of course is subject to change as we learn more about the government requirements.
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We will do the same with "T" on the PR14, add new employee group, and modify existing custom reports for tax deposits & 941 and new report for the business tax credit.

Just asking, does anyone have 2 employer social security tax codes (or similar)? I'm wondering how Lawson/BSI will handle multiple codes of the same tax with 106800 limit, W2 & SSA file. Someone suggested a dummy tracking code, but I think it would be too cumbersome given this will last another 7 months. Just wondering.