Payroll Simulation – Understand Payroll Wage Types
Use this procedure to understand wage type (WT) valuation meanings when reviewing the payroll results table or payroll simulation.
Payroll
Payroll Simulation – Read Payroll Simulation Results
Use this report procedure to view simulated payroll after a change to an employee’s master data to validate or correct the changes. Running a pay sim allows you to view the outcome of any changes before the next stored payroll results.
This report describes the key sections of a payroll simulation that should be reviewed during payroll processing. Since payroll simulations contain a lot of data, there may be sections with useful information that are not covered in this procedure.
Payroll Simulation
Use these report procedures to view simulated payroll after a change to an employee’s master data to validate or correct the changes. Running a payroll simulation (pay sim) allows you to view the outcome of any changes before the next stored payroll results.
Out-of-State Tax Authority Locator
Use this report to identify the tax area and tax authorities that may be applicable to an out-of-state employee based on where they are living and/or working. This information will be used to create the employee’s Residence Tax Area (0207) and Work Tax Area (0208) infotype records.
Oregon Tax Filing Report
Use this report to view Oregon tax information from stored payroll results for a selected quarter, period, or multiple periods within the same quarter. This report will display tax withholding amounts and wages for employees subject to Oregon taxes, to include both employee and employer taxes.
Idaho Tax Filing Report
Submitted by Viet.La@ofm.wa.gov on Fri, 04/11/2025 - 09:49Use this report to view Idaho tax information from stored payroll results for a selected quarter, period, or multiple periods. This report will display tax withholding amounts and wages for employees subject to Idaho taxes.
Additional Steps for Out-of-State Employees – CATS Work Tax Area Override
Use this procedure to assign time worked to a work tax area other than the one on the employee’s Work Tax Area (0208) infotype record. Work Tax Area is used to identify the tax area and tax authorities that are applicable to the employee based on where they are working. Creating this type of Work Tax Area override may be necessary when the employee works in a different tax area for a portion of a pay period and entering an allocation split on the employee’s Work Tax Area (0208) record is not desired.
Work Tax Area - Change Existing Record
Use this procedure to make a correction to or delimit an employee’s Work Tax Area (0208) infotype record. Work Tax Area is used to identify the tax area and tax authorities that are applicable to the employee based on where they are working.
Work Tax Area - Copy and Update Record
Use this procedure to copy an existing Work Tax Area (0208) infotype and update it with necessary changes. Work Tax Area is used to identify the tax area and tax authorities that are applicable to the employee, based on where they are working. Using the Copy action will retain the history of the previous record.
Work Tax Area - Create New Record
Use this procedure to create a new Work Tax Area (0208) infotype record. Work tax area is used to identify the tax area and tax authorities that are applicable to the employee based on where they are working. Creating a new record is necessary when the employee does not have an active infotype record, or when the employee has an existing infotype record but you do not want to copy over the existing data fields.