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!!!Georgia Annual and Quarterly Reporting
 
!!What's New for Tax Year 2011
The following changes have been noted for reporting W2 wages to the federal government:

*(W2 Form) The ‘Advance Earned Income Credit Payment’ is eliminated for tax year beginning after December 31, 2010.  Box 9, Advance EIC payments, has been deleted from the 2011 Form W2.
*(W2 Form) Code DD is added to box 12 of the 2011 form W2 to report the cost of employer-sponsored health coverage.  However, this reporting will not be mandatory for 2011.
*(W2 Form) Code EE, Designated Roth contributions under a government section 457(b) plan, has been added to the list of codes in box 12 of Form W2.
*(W2 File) A new field, Kind of Employer, has been added to the RE Employer Record (position 174). This is a required field.
*(W2 File) A new field, Cost of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage, has been added to the RW Employee Record (positions 463-473) and the RT Total Record (positions 295-309).
*(W2 File) A new field, Designated Roth Contributions Under a Governmental Section 457(b) Plan, has been added to the RO Employee Record (positions 111-121) and the RU Total Record (positions 145-159) 

!!Set Up
This document contains abbreviated set up requirement for the state of Georgia only, please refer to the general document ([US_Annual_Qtrly_Reporting_GEN]) for other setup procedure that may also be required.

!IDGV - State Registration
*The [IDGV Definition|IDGV#DefinitionTab]tab must be set up for ‘State Registration’ for State/Province: Georgia.
*The [IDGV Variables|IDGV#VariablesTab] tab must be set up for ‘State Registration’ for State/Province: Georgia.
**‘W2 STATE MEDIA FILING’- Georgia state accepts W2 wage report with federal and other state information, therefore, the Media Filing variable can be set to ‘01’, which will include state information in the Federal File.  (However, it must be set to ‘02’ if a W2 magnetic media file is required for the state of GA only.)

!IDGV - State SUI Registration
*The [IDGV Definition|IDGV#DefinitionTab]tab must be set up with ‘State SUI Registration’ for State/Province: Georgia
*The [IDGV Variables|IDGV#VariablesTab] tab must be set up with ‘State SUI Registration’ for State/Province: Georgia
**‘W2 STATE MEDIA FILING’- Must be ‘02’ to generate UI wage magnetic media file for Georgia

!!State File Procedures
*The state of Georgia  Department of Revenue accepts filing of W-2s via magnetic media using the EFW2 file format, and the filing of Quarterly UI wages via magnetic media using the ICESA format.
*Records required for the W2 reporting are: Codes RA,RE,RW/RO,RS,RT/RU,RF; and for the UI wage reporting: Code ‘S’.
*Georgia State requires to file the GA State file by itself, therefore, [IDGV] must be set up as follows:
**for State Registration of Georgia, the [IDGV Variables|IDGV#VariablesTab]:
***‘W2 STATE MEDIA FILING’ 02 – State requires its own file, do not include other state information in the state file.

!Annual W2 Wage Reporting – EFW2 format
[RPYEU] must be run and the following selected to generate Georgia state file information:
|Report List Filters, Select State:|Georgia, USA
|Parameters, Annual Form Code:|(example: use standard form code‘HL$US-W2-2012’)
|Parameters, Period Type:|Year
|Parameters, Period End Date:|Year End Date (i.e. 31-Dec-2011)
|Parameters, Media Format:|State File Format

The Directory and Media File Name parameters must be populated otherwise an output file will not be produced.

!!State Media Magnetic Media Reporting – EFW2 (Formerly MMREF1) Format
;Record name: Code RA - Transmitter Record (same as the federal code RA)
 
!!State Quarterly UI Wage Reporting – ICESA format
[RPYEU] must be run and the following selected to generate Georgia state file information:
To produce a SUI file format in the ICESA format, the Quarterly Form Code must be entered.

!!ICESA for Georgia
* The format details are found at the ...
 
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