Adding a negative Pre-Tax Deduction

Question

My company is applying a $50 tax credit to my Pre-Tax deduction, which comes up on my paycheck as -$50   Quicken does not allow me to add this transaction: "You don't need to enter a negative amount for deduction.  Quicken will handle it for you"

NotACPA · Answer

NOT if there's no tax line assigned to the category used.  It's the Tax line assigned to the category that determines if it appears on any tax report.

John Mollman · Answer

The problem with entering these as an earning is that the W2 Gross calculations are now incorrect as the credit is counted as W2 gross income, which it isn't. Quicken really should support negative after-tax deductions. They aren't that uncommon (Stock award tax offsets), and how hard can it be to allow entering negative deductions?

jrh404 · Answer

It appears as a -$50, which is how I wanted to enter it.  
 Thanks for your suggestion, that's what I ended up doing