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QUICKBOOKS & T4’S

CONTENTSQuickBooks &T4’s. 3Preparing T4s . 3Review T4 . 3Adjusting T4 . 4Print T4 . 5Emailing T4 . 6E Filing T4 . 8Amending T4 Slips . 12Canceling T4 Slips . 12Preparing the T4 summary . 13Appendix A . 15T4 Summary Form . 15

QUICKBOOKS &T4’ST4 forms are the yearly forms, which report employee earnings and deductions. Manually preparing these formscan be a daunting task. Luckily, QuickBooks assists you in preparing T4 forms. This document will guide youthrough the steps.PREPARING T4SA T4 slip is the end-of-year form that you give to each employee and submit to Canada Revenue Agency—usually no later than the last day in February. T4s report the employee's wages and taxes withheld for thecalendar year.Note: Where possible the screen shots in this document are from QuickBooks 2012 and/or QuickBooks 2013Premier Accountants Edition.Before you create T4 slips, check to make sure that you have correctly entered the employees’ name, addressand Social Insurance Numbers. From the Report Menu, choose Employees & Payroll then select EmployeeContact List.REVIEW T4 To issue employee T4s, from the Payroll Centre, choose Process T4s. In the T4 window, select theapplicable year and employees. Remember to also select any ex-employees who received paycheques during the year; choose Review T4.

In the Employee T4 preview window, verify the accuracy of the displayed information. You can do so bycomparing the T4 to the Payroll Summary report.ADJUSTING T4 In the rare event that you need to adjust one of the T4 amounts, double-click the desired field to openthe adjustment window. Enter a description and a positive or negative adjustment amount, and thenselect OK to close the window.Note: Because the adjustments that you make could have an impact on applicable payroll taxes andremittances, consult with your accountant, Certified ProAdvisor or the CRA before making any adjustments toyour employees’ T4s. Select OK to close the adjustment window. QuickBooks returns to the Employee T4 window. ChooseNext to view the next employee’s T4 (not illustrated here).Once all T4s are reviewed, Select OK to close the EmployeeT4 preview window.

QuickBooks returns to the Process End of Year Forms window and confirms that you verified all employeeT4s by placing a checkmark in the Reviewed column.PRINT T4 From the Process End of Year Forms window, review each employee’s T4 slips.Select Print.You will see the Print T4s dialog window. In the Print T4s window, indicate which forms you areprinting.Note: You must print one set of forms for: Canada Revenue Agency (two employees per page) the employer (that’s you! two employees per page) The employees (one employee per page. QuickBooks also prints a second, informational page, for eachemployee; this feature cannot be edited). You are no longer required to print on Pre-printed forms; Revenue Canada will accept the forms printed onplain paper. Select Print.

QuickBooks displays a Reminder dialog box reminding you about the number of forms to print. Choose OKto print the T4s. Once again, QuickBooks returns to the Process End of Year Forms window and indicates that all T4shave been reviewed and are printed. Select Done to close the window.EMAILING T4 As with printed T4s, from the Process End of Year Forms window, Review each employee’s slip.Select Email

If QuickBooks has one time messages turn on you will see the following warnings: Please ensure you have documented consent from your employees before emailing their T4 slips.T4s are sent as an attachments in the following formats: Password protected PDF files – Password consists of the first three letters of the employee’slast name followed by the last three digits of their Social Insurance Number. Encrypted ATF files. Employees can easily import ATF files to Intuit Turbo Tax. If you do not have an email entered for your employee an Information Missing or Invalid window willopen. Enter the missing information and choose OK. Select Forms to Send window will open, this will allow you to edit, remove or select the T4 to send andchoose Send Now and OK.

Sample of the email sent to employee and the .pdf and .atf files attached. QuickBooks returns to the Process End of Year Forms window and confirms thatyou emailed all employee T4s by placing a checkmark in the Emailed column.E FILING T4To use this service, you have to meet all of the following conditions: You have a Business Number and a Web Access Code. You can find these at the top of yourpersonalized T4 summary from the CRA. If you didn’t receive or have misplaced your Web AccessCode or Business Number, call the CRA at 1877-322-7849 to obtain or replace either of them.You must have a Transmitter Number. If you are a current magnetic media transmitter, use the MMnumber that the CRA has already assigned to you. If you are a new transmitter, use the number MM555555.CRA requires that your T4 be electronically filed in an .xml 4.0 file. To create this file, Microsoftcomponent MSXML 4.0 needs to be installed on your system. If your system does not have thiscomponent, QuickBooks will prompt you to download and install it.

QuickBooks only prints six codes per slip. If you have an employee with more than six codes, you mustcreate a second slip which shows only the extra codes.NoteQuickBooks 2013 - As of the tax table update; in December 2012 the Efile submission ID is now titled EFileStarted On. The EFile Started On indicates the date that the T4 Efile was started.QuickBooks 2012 – Efile Submission ID title will remain – Important – the Efile Submission ID is not areverence number from the CRA; this is a QuickBooks internal date format indicating when T4’s were Efiled.As with printed and emailed T4s, from the Process End of Year Forms window, Review each employee thenselect E-File T4 Enter your transmitter number (use 555555 if you do not have it) contact info and proprietor socialinsurance number(s). Before taking you to CRA’s website, QuickBooks indicates the location of your XML file.

Important: Take note of this file’s location. You will need to know it in a later step. Once on the CRA’s website, select Enter Internet file transfer (XML) secure Web site and Agree tothe terms and conditions. Enter your account number or transmitter number then enter your Web Access Code. ChooseContinue to step two.

Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the process. Once you’re done, the CRA website will informyou whether or not your T4s were successfully filed. Make note of the Confirmation ID and close the browser window to return to QuickBooks. If your efiled T4s are not rejected, and you do not receive a confirmation number, call the T4 Internet filing helpdesk toll free at 1-877-322-7849. When QuickBooks returns to the Process T4 window (and if you successfully e-filed the T4s) you willsee in QuickBooks 2012 an EFILE Submission ID similar to the codes indicated below. The CRAdoes not recognize the EFile Submission ID and QuickBooks does not record the Confirmation IDthat the CRA creates. The CRA requires the Confirmation ID that is created on their website as proofof Efiling.As of the December 2012 tax table update, QuickBooks 2013 will now have an EFILE Started On date.Note: if you are refilling T4’s you will see the following warning screen, please enter Yes and click OK tocontinue.

AMENDING T4 SLIPSIf you notice that one or more of the T4 slips you have filed contain an error, you can amend and re-file theslips using QuickBooks.In the Process End of Year Forms window, Make sure that the correct form and year are displayed and click amended as the type of formyou would like to generate. Select the employees whose T4 slips you would like to amend. Choose Review. Double click the box you need to correct. Enter your adjustment and the reason for the change, and select ok. When you have finished entering adjustments for the slip, choose Next to move on to the nextemployee's slip, or ok if you do not need to make any more changes.After you have amended your T4 slips, you will need to send a copy of each amended form to youremployee and the CRA. You can either email the slips to your employee and EFile using CRA EFILE, orPrint the slips to send and submit manually.Note: Do not file an amended summary form when you file amended slips.CANCELING T4 SLIPSIn the Process End of Year Forms window, Make sure that the correct form and year are displayed and click cancelled as the type of formyou would like to generate. Select the employees whose T4 slips you would like to cancel. Choose Review. When you have finished reviewing each slip, click Next to move on to the next employee's slip, orok to return to the Process End of Year Forms window.You will need to send a copy of each cancelled form to your employee and the CRA. You can either emailthe slips to your employee and EFile with the CRA, or Print the slips to send and submit manually.

PREPARINGTHET4SUMMARYOnce all T4s are printed, you must prepare a T4 Summary. This summary report totals all employee earnings asrecorded on the T4s. It also totals the deductions and payroll taxes (CPP and EI) withheld from the employeesduring the calendar year. Lastly, this form is used to reconcile those amounts with the source deductionpayments that you remitted to CRA. To prepare this report, from the Report Menu, select Payroll & Employees and then select T4Summary. Transcribe the information from this report to CRA’s official T4 Summary slip (see Appendix A for asample copy).Note The T4 Summary report tells you the box number for each of the amounts that you must transcribe. You will also have to enter, in Box 82 of CRA’s T4 Summary (below), the total amount that you remittedto CRA. To find the total remittances, open the Employee Centre, click the Transactions tab, and thenselect Liability Cheques. In the right pane of the Employee Centre, verify the selected date-rangethen right-click any transaction and select View as Report.