Re: Relocation software certified with PS

[Tony DeLia <tdelia@EROLS.COM>]

Hi Betty,
   You raise a good point... John's stated requirement is to
specifically avoid paying taxes on employee expenses... BUT if he does
in fact have to keep up with legislation the 3rd party software could
still be used... then an extract could be obtained that populates a
custom staging table within PeopleSoft... then the custom year-end
process could populate the appropriate PeopleSoft tables without furthur
data entry... still a 'potentially' easy solution (when analyzed
carefully...

              Tony DeLia

Betty McClellan wrote:
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> FYI:  My experience with relo requirements is that they are not as simple as 
>you may think.  3rd party software maintains state tax rules to classify 
>whether each type of expense (moving costs, hotel while traveling to/from 
>homes, hotel while house hunting, food while traveling to/from homes, food 
>while house hunting, etc) is taxable for each state.  I think it predefines 
>these categories knowing these tax rules.  And I'm sure states make 
>legislation changes, so if you tried to build this in Peo
>
> Also, I believe the setup tables would need to keep track with expenses that 
>are non-taxable but still need to be reported in one of the W-2 boxes (again, 
>rules at the state level).
>
> So, unless you're willing to keep up with all the legislation, third party 
>software is a pretty good solution.  When I was worked on interfaces from a 
>3rd party into a legacy system, I believe the vendor package was from 
>McGladrey Pullen.
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Tony DeLia
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