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- This file contains information about how you can continue to use ZIPPER
- Payroll if you don't have the tax tables for the next year. This
- information is supplied in the event you have obtained a shareware copy
- of ZIPPER Payroll near the end of the year (or shortly after the
- beginning of the year), and it does not include the tax tables for the
- new year.
-
- ZIPPER Payroll is configured to process payroll for only one year at a
- time. At the end of the year, after you have processed all your
- payroll, ZIPPER will "create a new year" payroll database so that you
- can process payroll for that new year. Since it is likely that the tax
- tables (federal and/or state) have changed, ZIPPER will not allow you to
- process payroll for the new year until you have installed the new tax
- tables.
-
- It's a matter of timing! The tax tables are published by the IRS and the
- revenue agencies within each state. Generally these tables are not
- published until the end of the year. At SOFTCRAFT, we contact each of
- the states to obtain their new tax tables, and during the month of
- December the ZIPPER tax tables are updated. Some states are a little
- slow in getting this information out, and our update is complete on or
- about New Years Eve. Tax table updates are automatically sent to all
- registered users at that time.
-
- SOFTCRAFT distributes ZIPPER Payroll via the Association of Shareware
- Professionals (ASP) vendor mailing. This means that the current version
- of ZIPPER Payroll, including the new tax tables, is not received by the
- shareware vendors until later in January, possibly even as late as
- February. If you have received a shareware copy of ZIPPER Payroll for an
- "old" year, you will need to follow the steps below to make ZIPPER
- Payroll usable.
-
- REMEMBER - IF YOU FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE YOU WILL BE USING OLD AND
- PROBABLY INCORRECT TAX TABLES, AND YOU PAYROLL CALCULATIONS (TAXES
- WITHHELD) WILL BE INCORRECT AS WELL. THIS WORKAROUND IS PROVIDED ONLY
- FOR THE PURPOSES OF ALLOWING YOU TO EVALUATE ZIPPER PAYROLL AS A
- SHAREWARE PRODUCT. THIS APPROACH IS SOMEWHAT RISKY, AND YOU DO SO AT
- YOUR OWN RISK.
-
- If ZIPPER Payroll is already installed, and you have been using it to
- process payroll for the "old" year:
-
- o Follow instructions in the User's Manual to Create a New Year.
-
- o Exit ZIPPER Payroll.
-
- o Copy the tax table 3 database files (ZIPxxTX1.RBF, ZIPxxTX2.RBF,
- and ZIPxxTX3.RBF - where xx is the tax table year) from the "old"
- payroll directory, to the ZIPPER Payroll directory you have created
- for the new year.
-
- o Use the DOS RENAME command to rename the tax tables database files
- to reflect the new year.
-
-
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- ___________________ Note the different file
- | numbers!
- |
- RENAME ZIP92TX1.RBF ZIP93TX1.RBF
- RENAME ZIP92TX2.RBF ZIP93TX2.RBF
- RENAME ZIP92TX3.RBF ZIP93TX3.RBF
- ||___________||
- |_____________|
-
-
- In the example above, it is assumed you are changing the 1992 tax
- tables to be usable for 1993, and the DOS command is issued from the
- directory where the new (1993) payroll database is located.
-
- o Start ZIPPER Payroll (for the new year).
-
- o Follow instructions in the User's Manual to install the new tax
- tables.
-
- When you become a registered user of ZIPPER Payroll, you will receive the
- tax tables for the current year (you also get the tax tables for the next
- year, when they are available, and one year of technical support). You
- can then install the correct tax tables by changing the two character
- state designation for your company: SYSTEM MENU, (1) Employer (Company)
- Data, (1) Enter / Edit Company Data.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- In the Company Information screen, change your state from California
- (CA) to Washington (WA). Press ESCape after you have made this change.
- ZIPPER will ask you if you really want to make this change; indicate
- "YES", you do). ZIPPER is now installing the new tax tables (but for
- the wrong state). After this process has completed simply reverse the
- process, and change your state back to what is should be. ZIPPER is now
- installing the new tax tables for the correct state.
-