PENNSYLVANIA STATE TAX CALCULATION#

Pennsylvania State Tax Calculation#

On IPUTR, there is a list of applicable taxes to be calculated for State of Pennsylvania:

42-000-0000-SIT-000	Pennsylvania State Tax
42-000-0000-ER_SUTA-000	Pennsylvania State Unemployment Tax
42-000-0000-SUI-000	Pennsylvania SUI

If UPUTR is run with list of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction, the following entries may exist:

42-000-1209052-CITY-000	Philadelphia City Tax
42-000-1213644-ER_POP-000	Pittsburgh Payroll Tax

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PA – IPRLU Set Up#

There is no State Miscellaneous Parameters for Pennsylvania, however IPRLU Miscellaneous Tax Parameters may be required to be set up for additional information.

If these Identifiers do not exist, UPCALC will generate the default entries for the identifiers

Miscellaneous Identifiers	Description
LOC_COURTESY_PA_EIT	Optional//Pennsylvania EIT Local Courtesy Option

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PA – ER SUTA, EE SUI#

ER SUTA may be bypassed on IPUTR with ‘Do not Calculate’ or IPRLU ‘SUI ER Method’ = ‘Do not Calculate’.

There are two options to set up the ER SUTA rate by state:

1. IPUTR
   • Enter the SUTA ER rate that is given by the government on the Override Tax Rate field.
   • This rate is applicable for the entire company within the State of Pennsylvania.
   • The SUI Rate and Wage Base are supplied and will be used as default
   • This SUI Rate or Wage Base may be overridden, if necessary
2. IDGV
   • If there is a specific rate given by the government for a different State Registration #, then enter the rate on IDGV by ‘Reg Type’; this overrides the IPUTR rate.
     
     

For SUI, the IPUTR SUI built-in rate and SUI wage base may be overridden by one of the options above. It is recommended that if the SUI rate is overridden, the SUI overridden wage base should also be entered. This is to ensure that with the overridden SUI rate, the SUI is able to stop at the proper maximum wage base with the new rate.

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PA – IPPC / PC Usages#

IPPC – Set up Pay Components by PC Usages
In order to calculate the following taxes, a pay component must be set up in IPPC for these PC Usages:

Usage	Description
7501	PA-EMST / LST Local Service Tax

EMST (Emergency Service Tax) and LST (Local Service Tax) are the same tax, the tax has had a few different names over the past few years.

Pennsylvania EIT (Earned Income Tax) is treated and stored as City and School District tax. Pay components will need to be defined for PC Usage 6901 (City Work Tax pay components) to PC Usage 6933 (City Res Tax pay components).

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PA – EIT#

The Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax (EIT) is a tax levied as a percent of earned income at the City, Municipality or School District level. Therefore the jurisdiction must be set up with State, County, City, Municipality and School district.

Pennsylvania EIT will be calculated based on State Regular and Supplemental Earnings. The tax results are stored at the City and School District level taxation.

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PA – OPT / EMST / LST#

This tax has had three different names over the past few years, OPT / EMST / LST. The tax will be calculated based on the GNIS Code.

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PA – Towanda – LST, EIT, School Tax Example#

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Work GEO: 42-015-1213646 Towanda

PC 5402 PA-EMST / LST Tax	This will be calculated by the GNIS code, therefore, there is no need to set up Applicable once per period
PC 6931 RCITY Sup Tax	PA EIT is treated as City and School District tax
PC 6932 RCITY Schl Sup Tax
PC 6951 Res CITY Tax
PC 6953 RCITY Schl Reg Tax

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PA – Philadelphia – City Tax Example#

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Work GEO: 42-101-1209052 Philadelphia

The City of Philadelphia tax is a percentage of gross wages; no school district tax.

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PA – Pittsburgh Payroll Expense Tax Example#

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Work GEO: 42-003-1214818 Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Payroll Expense tax is calculated.

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