Texas Annual and Quarterly Reporting#
What's New for W2 Wage Reporting for Tax Year 2011#
Texas does not have state personal income tax.
- There is no Quarterly Wage Reporting File Format changes
Set Up#
This document contains abbreviated set up requirement for the state of Texas 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 Definitiontab must be set up for 'State Registration' for State/Province: Texas.
- The IDGV Variables tab must be set up for 'State Registration' for State/Province: Texas; it must also setup ‘W2 State Media Filing’ with value 02.
- 'W2 STATE MEDIA FILING'- Must be ‘02’ to generate TX State magnetic media file for TX State only
IDGV - State SUI Registration#
- The IDGV Definitiontab must be set up with 'State SUI Registration' for State/Province: Texas.
- The IDGV Variables tab must be set up with 'State SUI Registration' for State/Province: Texas.
W2 STATE MEDIA FILING | Must be ‘02’ to generate UI wage magnetic media file for state of Texas |
W2 TAXING ENTITY | Must contain the County Code of the county with the greatest number of employees This is reported on ICESA format code T record position 248-250 |
- The IDGV Variables tab must also be set up with ‘State SUI Registration’ for QTR information such as:
- QTR TAXES DUE
- Must contain the State Quarterly UI Taxes Due
- This is reported on ICESA format code T record position 88-100
- Taxes Due = Quarterly State UI taxable wages * UI Tax rate
- The client must compute this field manually and enter in QTR TAXES DUE every quarter
- QTR ER ASSESS RATE
- Must contain the UI Tax Rate for this quarter
- This is reported on ICESA format code T record position 82-87
State File Procedures#
- Texas does not have state personal income tax.
- The Texas Workforce accepts filing of UI quarterly wages via magnetic media using the ICESA format.
RPYEU must be run and the following selected to generate Texas state file information:
Media Format: | State SUI File Format |
Select State: | Texas, USA |
- The state of North Dakota must be selected in the 'Report List Filters'.
- Annual Form Code - Use the standard supplied form code HL$US-W2-2012. The Variables need to be entered in this form code for specific use in the installation.
- The 'Quarterly Form Code' must be entered in order to produce the UI wage file in ICESA format.
- Use the supplied form code 'HL$US-QTR-2012'. The Variables need to be entered in this form code for specific use in the installation.
- Period Type:Quarter
- Period End Date:Enter the quarter end date, i.e. 30-Jun-2011
- Media File Type:State SUI File Format
- If the Directory Name/Media File Name is not supplied, an output file will not be produced.
- You must select state TEXAS in the ‘Report List Filters’.
- Annual Form Code’ – use the standard HighLine supplied form code HL$US-W2-2012. You will have to enter the ‘Variables’ in this Form Code for use specifically in your installation.
- The ‘Quarterly Form Code’ must be entered in order to produce UI wage file in ICESA format. – use the HighLine supplied Form Code ‘HL$US-QTR-2012’.. You will have to enter the ‘Variables’ in this Form Code for use specifically in your installation.
- Period Type: Quarter.
- Period End Date: Enter the quarter end date, i.e. 30-Jun-2011.
- Media File Type: State SUI File Format.
- The Directory Name/Media File Name must be supplied or an output file will not be produced.
Record name: Code A - Transmitter Record
ICESA for the State of North Dakota#
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QUARTERLY UI Wage MAGNETIC MEDIA REPORTING – ICESA format
ICESA File Format for Texas (Multiple Work-sites not supported)
(Please not that the following ‘Not Required’ field may or may not always contains BLANKS).
Note: Columns with TX indicates it is a Texas specific requirement which is not the standard record format
Record name: Code A - Transmitter Record