Wages Journal Help

[ANAGLE]

Hi I am very lost with Sage 50 wages journal. Windows 7, Uk Sage 2013

any help would be much appreciated

This is what I have been doing:
5600 Gross Wages DR
2300 Net Wages CR
2313 Tax and NI CR (Employer and Employee NI plus TAX)
2310 Employer NI DR (Only started using this last month as the £2000 allowance ran out then )

Should I have been posting the full Employer NI amount all along and posting the allowance as well? I haven't been showing it anywhere. If so what codes do I use?

When I have been posting the bank payments for wages I have used 2300 Net wages and for Tax and Ni I have only used the 2313 code , is this correct ?

Very confused. Anna

[brucedenney]

The "control" accounts are controlled by checking they return to 0 after the liabilities have been fulfilled.

So

2300 should go back to 0 when you pay the wages to the staff
2313 should go back to 0 when you pay the PAYE/NI
2310 should go back to 0 when you pay the Employer NI

Is this the case for you, do they all have 0 balances when paid?

The liability accounts should all be CR as it represents money you owe to them.

A DR would be for an allowance you get from them, which is deducted from the liability you owe to them.

I would expect the Allowance to stop when it ran out not start when it ran out. So not sure what is going on there.


Effectively there are only 2 controls one for paying the staff and one for paying the tax and national insurance so yes I would roll all the Tax and NI into one control.

I suspect that you may see a £2000 DR balance on 2310 and a £2000 CR balance on 2313 these cancel each other out. In which case rolling them together resolves the problem.