Arkansas 2022 Tax Table Updates

The Department of Finance and Administration of Arkansas updated the withholding methods of the state. The new withholding formula takes effect October 1, 2022. The following are the updates:

• The highest tax rate used decreased from 5.5% to 4.9% and the tax brackets used were adjusted.

• The formula’s standard deduction increased from $2,200 to $2,270.

• The withholding instructions were updated to decrease the supplemental withholding rate to 4.9%.

This release updates the following screens to support the new withholding formula and latest tax updates of Arkansas:

• Manage Payroll Records

• Compute Payroll

Attention: For more information, refer to:

• Withholding Formula: https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/incomeTaxOffice/whformula.pdf

• Withholding Instructions: https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/incomeTaxOffice/withholdInstructions.pdf

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10983.

District of Columbia SUTA Electronic Filing ICESA Record Types A, E, And S Updates in DCETS

The Department of Employment Services (DOES) will transition to their modernized tax system, District of Columbia Employer Tax System (DCETS), for UI Tax program services. The new system will replace the existing Employee Self Service Portal (ESSP) in January 2023 according to the state. The SUTA file updates for the District of Columbia will be reflected if the system date in Costpoint is from January 2023.

The following will be implemented in the new system:

• Employers will be allowed to report out-of-state quarterly taxable wages submitted to U.S. states other than the District of Columbia (Including the 50 U.S. States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

• Employers will be required to report the state to which any reported Out-of-State Taxable Wages are paid.

• Within the Wage Amendment Process, employers will be required to select a reason for the amendment at the employee level and provide a narrative description when “Other” is reported as the reason. The new requirements are detailed within the individuated sections for each file type.

According to DOES, the requirements for the following have been updated:

• Employer ICESA Record Type A: Fields 208-275

• Employer ICESA Record Type E: Fields 149-158

• Employer ICESA Record Type S: Fields 135-275

Attention: Please see the DCETS Wage File Format Specifications for the complete ICESA file layout and the file layouts of other available file types (EFW2, XML, and CSV).

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10801.

 

Manage SUTA Quarterly Reporting Data (PRMQRD)

The Manage SUTA Quarterly Reporting Data screen features the following updates:

• The screen provides the following new fields:

Field	Description
Adjustment SUTA State	Enter, or click lookup to select, the state to which you will report the amendment.
Adjustment Reason Description	This field displays the description of the code you entered in the Adjustment Reason Code field.

• The Adjustment SUTA State Code (ADJ_SUTA_STATE_CD) column was added to the SUTA Quarterly Reporting Data (SUTA_QTR_RPT_DATA) table.

• The SUTA State Code (SUTA_STATE_CD) column was added to the SUTA Adjustment Reason Code (S_SUTA_ADJ_RSN_CD) system table.

• The Data for District of Columbia was added in the S_SUTA_ADJ_RSN_CD system table.

• The lookup function in the Adjustment Reason Code field was updated based on the Adjustment SUTA State.

• The screen displays an error if the explanation text exceeds 25 characters for the District of Columbia.

 

Manage SUTA Tax File Data (PRMSMM)

The Manage SUTA Tax File Data screen provides the following validations for the District of Columbia:

• An error displays when the value for location exceeds three characters. The field Location/Unit (S 162-164) has a length of only three characters in the Employer ICESA file layout.

• An error displays when the E-mail field is blank.

 

Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File (PRPSMM)

The Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File screen now supports the updated ICESA records A, E, and S for the District of Columbia.

Florida 2022 SUTA Electronic Filing

The Florida Department of Revenue published the reemployment tax XML specifications package, which provides enhancements that include the ability to file reports with no employees.

The following requirement to report at least one employee has been removed in XML schema v2022 1.0:

• At least one employee must be reported. If there are no employees to report, enter “Jane Doe”, with a Social Security number of “999999999”.

To support the state requirements, the Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File screen can now generate an XML file with no employees.

Attention: For more information, refer to:

• Florida Dept. of Revenue - Software Developer Information and Specifications

• Reemployment Tax XML Package

Virginia 2022 Tax Table Updates

Virginia updated their withholding methods to implement an increase to the standard deduction from $4,500 to $8,000. The new withholding methods take effect on October 1, 2022. The withholding formula was otherwise unchanged, except for the increase to the standard deduction.

This release applies updates to the following screens:

• Manage State Taxes

• Manage State Standard Deductions

• Manage State Tax Tables

• Manage State Tax Withholding Adjustments

Attention: For more information, refer to the Income Tax Withholding Guide for Employers: https://www.tax.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/vatax-pdf/employer-withholding-instructions.pdf.

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10995.

The web version of Time & Expense was updated to ensure that when leave requests are submitted from Mobile T&E, the supervisor responsible for approving leave is the only one to receive the task notification when the employee is assigned more than one supervisor.

Defect 1727831: A new field, Customer Name, has been added to the Customers/Contacts tab of this screen to display the name of the selected Customer.

Defect 1742262: When a Costpoint Employee Name included a special character and was exported to Talent Management, the special character was replaced with a question mark in Talent Management.

Defect 1753686: When you opened timesheets in the progressive web app (PWA), you could not see timesheet rows past the 20th row in List view. You had to switch to Landscape mode to see all the timesheet rows.

Defect 1737640: When you generated a transfer inventory reservation and moved from one warehouse to another, the detailed part schedule displayed supply and demand in one warehouse instead of separating them.

Defect 1746325: The application did not display the correct Material Requirements Planning (MRP) demand for the inventory transfer reservation.

Defect 1495842: Negative recast lines caused the following hard error: "The Negative Timesheet line would cause the unrelieved amount balance for the total MO to go negative.”

Defect 1495841: Negative recast lines caused the following hard error: "The Negative Timesheet line would cause the unrelieved amount balance for the total MO to go negative.”

Defect 1653288: The application did not display an error/warning message when you added a timesheet line with insufficient leave and then saved the timesheet. This issue occurred when the leave type’s Floor Edit Method was set to Error or Warning.

Defect 1724158: Before the application applied the ceiling to the non-qualifying deduction, it subtracted the non-qualifying deduction amounts from the base of the qualifying deduction amounts.

Defect 1749983: Errors related to raw cost occurred during calculations of annual salary amounts for part-time employees.

Defect 1732956: EALC_YTD values were omitted from Profit and Loss reports, resulting in variances.

Defect 1726201: Invalid Project Labor Categories (PLCs) were saved into a project.

Defect 1740083: You encountered unknown values that affected OVER CEILING - FUNDING calculations.

Defect 1743331: BI Report tables were multiplying Revenue/Costs due to different PAG codes between Project Budgets and New Business Budgets.

Defect 1715979: You encountered problems in Batch Mode processing of Import Budget/EACs from Excel, and the application did not communicate with View Action and Report Status.

Defect 1731922: The values saved by Costpoint were incorrect when the entered Cost and Fee had decimals.

Defect 1725342: When you used a project type with the Default to Owning Org checkbox selected, and then you entered a new record using Paste Data from Excel, the value of the checkbox became cleared on the pasted data.

Defect 1755136: When you saved an expense report, there was an extra space between the ER signature text box and the I Agree checkbox.