CTS SETTINGS

Use this screen to establish control information used by the Create CTS Tax File application, including the Collector ID assigned to your company by Ceridian Tax Services.

Enter information in this screen before processing the Create CTS Tax File application. The information that you enter in this screen is necessary to define the CTS Collector ID and each CTS Client ID that will be used in the tax file.

CTS Collector ID

Required. Enter the unique collector identification number assigned by CTS.

Periodic File

Use the options in this group box to define rules for creating the CTS Periodic File.

Exclude SUI Data

Select this check box to exclude all state unemployment insurance amounts from the CTS Periodic tax file. 

Exclude Supplemental Data

Select this check box to exclude all supplemental state unemployment insurance amounts from the CTS Periodic File. 

Client ID

A client ID is a unique value that CTS uses to distinguish a group of employees.  It can represent a pay cycle or a pay cycle/federal tax ID combination.  If you have set up your CTS client IDs so that they are the same as your Costpoint pay cycle codes, select the Use Pay Cycle for Client ID checkbox.  Otherwise, uncheck the Use Pay Cycle for Client ID checkbox and populate the Client ID table. The system uses the CTS client ID in the creation of both the CTS quarterly and periodic tax files.

Use Pay Cycle for Client ID

Select this checkbox if your CTS client IDs are the same as your Costpoint pay cycle codes.   If you select this checkbox, the system will use the pay cycle codes for client IDs when creating the periodic and quarterly CTS tax files.

Table Window

Use this table to assign CTS client IDs to a pay cycle/federal tax ID combination. 

Federal Tax ID

Enter up to 20 characters to specify the federal tax ID. The value must exist in the Set Up Company Info table. When creating the CTS tax file, the system will use this value to link Employee Earnings and/or Payroll Edit records to a CTS client ID. This is a required field.

Pay Cycle

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the pay cycle to link to the Federal Tax ID and CTS Client ID.  This is a required field.

CTS Client ID

Enter up to six characters to specify the client ID that CTS assigned to the designated Federal Tax ID and Pay Cycle. The system will use this value to determine which records should be reported under each Client Header record of the periodic and quarterly CTS files.

CTS identifies companies with an assigned CTS Collector ID.  CTS Client IDs represent a pay cycle. In Costpoint, you have two options for specifying a CTS Client ID.  First, you can use Costpoint Pay Cycle codes as Client IDs (in the Pay Periods screen in the Payroll Controls menu in Costpoint Payroll). For example, if your Pay Cycle code is "WKP1," the CTS Client ID will also be "WKP1."  The second option is to specify your own CTS Client ID and link that to a Costpoint Pay Cycle and Federal Tax ID.  You can specify both the CTS Collector ID and the CTS Client IDs in the CTS Settings application.