Workaround Hacks and Procedures

More Systems

Actions (what would you do and/or tell the customer to do)

Federal Folder in the Knowledge Portal

Federal Payroll Tax

100

The correspondence in IEP is not fully showing on the screen to edit it, this workaround allows you to successfully edit 

Click anywhere on the window and tab until you see the edit button

100

You might go to this other notice platform to find potential duplicates, tax filings containing time stamps, and notice cases prior to ~2024 


Case360

100

This Core customer created a backdated payroll that was created in April after the Q1 Form 941 was already remitted. This data was not reported as a result. The customer needs a 941X. 


Advise customer to amend

100

You can follow this SOP when the customer sends a notice that they will not be charged penalties despite late payments

Federal Statement Not a Bill

100

This form pertains to federal unemployment tax

FUTA/Form 940

200

PTP is not recovering an account when using the COID to look it up, using this browser allows you to see the account in PTP

Firefox

200

You can click on the history button in this system to review timestamps and activity of a single payment 

PTP

200

This Elite Payroll customer has a missing Q4 2024 Form 941, there is a filing rejection showing in TFS because the customer had another active Quickbooks account that filed a 0 first 


Launch an amendment for an original

200

You will typically use this SOP when the customer sends a notice they received from the Social Security Administration 


Researching SSA OOB Tax Notices

200

There are 5 listed for Federal Taxes on the Tax and Wage Summary

941/943/944 income tax types

300

When IRS transcripts are not available for a customer and you are unable to resolve without, you can obtain this form from the customer to fax to the IRS while over the phone

Form 8655

300

You are researching on the User Activity Log and observe someone within Intuit making changes to payroll records. You can use the time stamps to go to this platform to try and recover a case for more context 

Salesforce

300

This customer uploaded a notice for the third time since the last resolution sent 7 months ago, the resolution has not changed and the customer still needs to pay the balance due 


Call customer

300

Go here to obtain the correct phone number and option to choose when calling the IRS 


Federal Matrix

300

This federal tax has a wage base (the wages are no longer taxable after a certain threshold is met) 

Hint: There are 2 possible answers 


Social Security or FUTA

400

When you have missing pages of a notice, need other forms or information, you can start this process to obtain information from the customer


Strike Process

400

Using this system, you can review any communications we sent the customer via their Payroll Tax Center. You may go here for more information after seeing a filing rejection in TFS

CS Server

400

This customer uploads a notice for the second time containing increased penalties and interest after being previously reimbursed for an Intuit error. You advise the customer of this resolution. 


We will not reimburse, call customer to explain we already reimbursed and advised them to pay

400

The customer has a notice for an intent levy caused by a payment posted to the wrong tax form period. In the Payment Move Letter Process SOP, you must take this step if you cannot get ahold of the IRS 


Payment Move Letter Instructions

400

This tax has no set rate (the percentage of wages that are taxed) 


Income Tax

500

You need to be in an incognito browser to see the customer facing side of this system 


QEA

500

Known Issues are located in this system 

Quickbase

500

This Premium customer had an EIN change 5 months ago (entity change amendment case). There is a balance due for payments that were made and posted to the wrong EIN. 


Attempt to call IRS to move payments, obtain form 8655 if do not have RAF for both entities

500

The customer is owed a refund, this information is available on the matrix for us to tell the customer how they may get a refund


How to request credits

500

This annual form is populated by a large portion of the wage information we are researching and working with everyday 


W3/W2s