Follow Project Locale Option

Select the Follow Project Locale option to use the locale associated with the project, rather than employee-specific settings.

You enter a default project tax locale for each project, phase, or task on the Accounting tab of the Projects hub. When employees charge time to the project, phase, or task, they can use the default or select a different locale. DPS uses the locale associated with the posted timesheet to determine withholdings.

DPS looks to the level of the work breakdown structure (WBS) to which the employee charges time to determine the locale. If you want a project to use the same locale regardless of the WBS level, you can establish a Payroll Tax Locale at the top (project) level, and select None for this field at the lower levels. DPS analyzes the hierarchy and uses the top-level setting.

When to Use this Option

You may want to use this option if your enterprise's employees perform work on multiple projects, each located in a different state or tax locale.

How DPS Works With this Option

When processing payroll, DPS calculates and tracks withholdings for all employees based on the state or tax locale entered in the Payroll Tax Locale field of the posted timesheet.

By default this field is populated with the locale entered in the Payroll Tax Locale field on the Accounting tab of the Projects hub. If the project record does not have a locale specified, DPS uses the locale entered as the Default Project Tax Locale on the Payroll tab of the Employees hub as the timesheet default.

An employee can override a default, by selecting a different locale in the timesheet's Payroll Tax Locale field.

If a default is set in the Projects hub, but an employee does not have a withholding code set up for this project's locale, DPS uses the Default Project Tax Locale from the Employees hub record as the timesheet default.