In Attaché payroll, a timesheet, adjustment, or standard pay can be set up to calculate the tax in 2 ways: Auto Tax or Fixed Tax.
You are able to manually adjust the tax amount in a timesheet or adjustment pay if required using the Fixed Tax option.
An example of when you would need to do this might be if the tax amount on a previous pay was incorrect (too much or too little), and you needed to adjust the following weeks pay.
Auto Tax in a timesheet or Adjustment Pay
For the most part, in a timesheet or adjustment pay entry screen, the Tax field is set to Auto Tax.
This means that the system will calculate the required tax amount automatically based the Before/After tax settings on each timesheet line, along with the employees Tax Scale, Tax Impost Details, and Voluntary Tax settings in the Employee Masterfile, Tax tab,
When Auto Tax is activated, the Tax field will simply be labelled Tax.
Fixed Tax in a timesheet or Adjustment Pay
You can manually override the amount of tax by decreasing or increasing this amount by clicking and editing in the Tax field. If you do modify this field, you will see after editing the amount, the Label will change to Fixed Tax.
You can revert back to Auto Tax at any time in the data entry by clicking back into the Fixed Tax field, and then clicking the Auto Tax (F5) button. This will revert the field label back to Tax and will re-instate the system calculated tax value.