Summary
How to create a non-taxable benefit that will appear on T4 only for owners' personal claim purposes only in Sage 50 Accounting.
Resolution
1. Create a non-taxable benefit
- Go to Setup, Settings, Payroll, Incomes.
- Rename the next available income to the benefit you want to create.
- Change the Type of the income to Benefit, and remove the checkmarks on all the columns.
- Go to Linked accounts.
- Link the new Benefit to the wages account.
- Click OK to save.
2. Set up the employee record
- Open an owner's employee record and select the Income tab.
- Put a checkmark in the Use column beside the new benefit and the salary fields.
- Click OK to save.
3. Create a paycheque
- Create new paycheque.
- Put 0.01 on the amount this period for Salary field (this will allow to post the paycheque, if Net pay = 0, the system will not allow it to post).
- Enter the benefit amount in the new benefit field.
- Click Post.
- Create another paycheque. (this will reverse the .01 added earlier).
- Put -0.01 on the amount this period for the Salary field (this will give you a message but it will allow you to post a negative net pay amount).
- Click Post.
4. Print the T4 with Box 34 options
Follow How to Print T4 Slips and Summary to print T4