Year end: Recording SUI payments before preparing Form 940

Before you can file Form 940 (Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Return), be sure you've recorded all your state unemployment insurance (SUI) taxes in your payroll account. Form 940 can't be completed without this information. Why?

If you get a SUI Out of Balance message while creating a 940 payment or filing a Form 940, it means that you probably haven't paid or properly recorded some of your SUI tax payments.

Research SUI out-of-balance issues

Here are a few simple tips you can use to figure out SUI out-of-balance issues:

• Check your historical tax payments to be sure that the amounts are correct and were recorded in the correct quarter. Go to Taxes & Forms and then click View Tax Payments you have made or View your Tax Liability Report
• Verify that the 2015 SUI tax rate is accurate for all quarters in 2015. How do I check my SUI tax rate?

Record SUI payments

If you need to enter a missing payment, do the following:

1. Go here.
   (Or choose Taxes & Forms and then Prior Tax History.) Choose Payroll (or Employees) > Taxes & Forms and then Prior Tax History.
2. Follow the onscreen instructions.

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