U.S. Year End 2015

[graziela]

Hello community,

This is our U.S. Year End 2015 Thread.

If you have questions about 2015 Year-End reporting, you can post this on this thread.

We will update this thread with tips and SAP Notes related to the subject.

Thank you,

Kind regards,

Graziela

[blair_towe2]

Good morning, Graziela - I have entered SAP Incident #0000013287 regarding Note 1836745. We are on SAP_HR 6.08 patch 20, and the manual pre-implement step for Note 1836745 says that it is valid up to patch 11, so I did not import the delivered config transport. However, after implementing the automatic correction instructions, when I go to SM30 to edit the view, the new wage type MAWH doesn't exist. I can see that it is contained in the delivered config transport L8HK050880, but I didn't import it because the validity shows I should not need it. Is this a misprint in the Note instructions?

Thanks!

Blair Towe

[jwiblepasshe22]

Blair, SAP and all,

I'm not sure about this specific problem but this OSS note ( 1836745 - TAX: Additional Withholding Over Arrears) has caused several payroll issues in our system and now contains side effects notes that address some of those issues.

2248641 - TAX: Note 1836745 introduces error in retro over NAMC and

2256229 - TAX: Note 1836745 introduces error in retro over Additional Off-Cycle Payments

In fact, unfortunately, the "bad" note (1836745) was applied to our production system as part of our year end support packs and has resulted in significant negative impacts to our Off cycle payroll adjustments that were done the last several pay periods of 2015. This includes causing us to have to manually adjust 19 W2's where annual retirement deductions in box 12 are out of balance in the CRT and TCRT.

SAP - These issues should have been communicated "prominently" in this forum and in the Marketplace with a direct reference to this note rather than just mentioning these correction notes as shown below, this was not adequate notification of the negative impact of this note:

SAP Notes 2256229 and 2248641 deliver corrections to tax calculation in retrocalculation scenarios over Additional Off-Cycle Payments and NAMC, respectively.

[Pazahanick_Jarr]

Great point Jeff and having been doing SAP Payroll since 1998, outside of 1999 the past two years have been some of the most difficult for customers IMHO which is surprising given how mature the SAP Payroll product is. I get that Payroll is complex and constantly changing but from the BSI 10.0 upgrade, to reciprocity/courtesy withholding to issues like the above I think SAP can and should do better.

[alicia_robinson]

Jeff -

I would have to agree!  The YE2015 page hasn't even been updated well this year and that is where I always refer to for updates.  We have had nothing but issues since applying the last SP's/CLC's and still don't think we have found all the issues.  Unfortunately ALL of these problems are in our PRODUCTION system.  There has to be a change in the Payroll and/or Tax functions/schemas/etc that we can't find that is behind all of these issues.

We had to void 200+ payments in the last payroll of 2015 for separated EE's who suddenly got refunds of taxes and they were not due the money.

We had more refunds show up in payroll 1.2016 that involves gross ups with cost assignment with cross year retros.  We have a message out for this one and still waiting on a solution - per 2 runs 1/15 so we are a little nervous.

Not to mention we are still struggling with all the constant changes in reciprocity and BSI.  We create overrides and 10 TUBs later BSI changes it so we have to remove the override or change it to another setting.

We don't have the luxury of having a Production like system that is refreshed with every payroll run that we can use for testing and there is no way to test 60k+ EE's for every  change that we put it in.

My apologies for the rant, but the last 2 months of issues have been "unrealistic" in my opinion.

Happy New Year.

[blair_towe2]

Good morning - SAP finally responded to my incident and they did change the validity instructions for the pre-implement transport in Note 1836745. For anyone running SAP_HR 6.08 (HR Renewal 2.0), the pre-implement transport is valid up to SAPKE60820. Originally, it said it was only valid up to SAPKE60811.

Regards,

Blair Towe