Hi @JamesM ,
I have a situation in QB Desktop where Bonus Cheques (unscheduled payroll) were issued on Dec 10/19 and regular pay cheques were issued on Dec 20/19 (scheduled payroll). Both cheques were covering the same bi-weekly pay period from Dec 1 - 14/19. However, in doing my year-end checks for CPP calculations, I find that QB has calculated an extra pay period and applied the exemption to one more pay period in the year than it should have (in cases of employees being there for the entire year, it calculated the exemption using 27 pay periods instead of 26, and for employees not there for the entire year, it added one more PP than it should have), thus knocking the CPP calculation for the year out of whack. The only people on my payroll (50+) who have correct CPP calculations are those who had reached the maximum at some point during the year. This has caused a huge problem for me as I am about to make my last remittance of the year and have to now make a lot of adjustments to avoid a PIER from CRA.
I have always thought QB would recognize that if two pay cheques are covering the same pay period, that it would not double up the CPP exemption for that period, but it has done exactly that. Is this normal behavior for QB? I don't recall ever having a problem with this before, and I have made many bonus payments over the years in the same way as I did for 2019. Help . . . ?
