entering employer paycheck expense reimbursement

Mark248

Unable to add one time nontaxable employer expense reimbursement into paycheck template without corrupting totals. I tried entering the reimbursement under earnings>add earnings and then using a nontaxable category, but the W2 taxable total at the bottom of the template incorrectly rises regardless. Quicken instructions suggest that I should reduce the taxable earnings by the same amount as the reimbursement to compensate for this, but then the total deposit amount is short by that reimbursement amount. I am Using QW2020 Subscription R30.14

Tom Young

I don't have any real experience with the paycheck wizard so this is simply a work-around.

If I'm understanding your problem you have a net check that you want to account for as a deposit, but the check amount is larger than the "normal" amount because of a non-taxable expense reimbursement and you can't get this to play out properly. 

If that's the case then the workaround would be to simply enter the deposit as a regular check, then immediately below that enter the reimbursement and whatever Category or Account where you want that amount to go in your file.  Perhaps in the Memo field a note to yourself that the amount was actually included in your payroll check would also be in order.

When your paycheck clears in the bank it won't match to anything, so you simply delete the download and mark both transactions as cleared in the Clr column.

That should work to get your accounting right and have your reconcile work properly.