2012 Pennsyslvania Act 32 Tax Changes

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Jodi Kruesel
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    We are beginning to prepare for the 2012 Act 32 taxing changes for the state of Pennsylvania. I've gathered information from BSI, Lawson, the state of PA and other resources to better educate our company on the changes. We are based in MN and produce payroll in MN but have sales force of about 40 that live and work in the state of PA.

    What are others doing to prepare for this? There is a new setting on Lawson on HR00 - Local Reciprocal Calculations that will likely need to change from blank to 1 and also 2 Lawson CTP's. One introduces a new field on PR06 to hold a PSD (Political SubDivision Code), the other a field on PR13.9

    Has anyone already tested the CTP's? Did you encounter any issues?
    BethC
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      We have been looking into this as well. We installed the CTP for PR06 but the field is numeric and not text so leading zeros disappear. I have not been able to find any information on the CTP for PR13.9. The other issue we are running across is a municipality can have 2 school districts and a school district can cross into more than one municipality. BSI is set up one for one not in combinations. The PSD code for a municipality depends on what school district you are referring to.
      Margie Gyurisin
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        Did you find the CTP for the PR13.9? I was just looking for it and could not find it either?
        Margie Gyurisin
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          Found it - it is listed under JT-224852. the CTP number would depend on your app version.
          Jodi Kruesel
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            We've just installed the CTP that adds the PSD code to PR06. It looks like this is a 10 character field. I have obtained the list of PSD codes from the PA website. My question is ----How have you figured out which PSD code corresponds to the BSI Tax Code (i.e. BSI00420568 corresponds to PSD 730402)?

            Jodi Kruesel
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              Since I haven't received any responses to this, I thought I'd try again  .

              Along with my original question of trying to determine what PSD code goes along with the BSI tax authority codes, I've ran into a few more questions.

              1.  It looks like we will have to report the PSD code on W-2's that reflect the code of where the tax monies were remiited to.  If our situation, we are a MN based company with a sales force in PA of about 40 employees, they are based out of their home so from what I understand, we could choose to remit all of our taxes to the same tax colllector (such as Berkheimier).  Does this mean I should be storing that PSD code on the PR06 (this would mean that all EIT and LST's would have the same PSD on PR06)?

              2.  How are others planning to store/use the PSD codes?

              Sorry for continuing to ask questions on this topic!!

              Thanks.
              Margie Gyurisin
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                I think we are all still try to wrap our arms around the requirements surrounding this Act. We have begun some preliminary testing. We are also thinking we may need to record PSD codes on our location code screens because our employees may not always work in the same location throughout the year. Your employees will probably not be affected by the non-resident tax since where they work is also where they live so the PR06 may be all you need. We will be storing them on the PR69 which is accessed through the PR06.

                I hope this helps.
                Jodi Kruesel
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                  Margie,

                  Will you be remitting your withholdings to one tax collection agency or multiple agencies? 
                  Margie Gyurisin
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                    As I understand from our payroll staff, we will be remitting to one tax collection agency since all our locations are in the same county. On that report, we will need to notify the tax collection agency which locality the employee worked in when the taxes were withheld.