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When will this be released?
Release Date: 06/26/2025 from 05:30 – 06:30 pm PDT, PST.
Is there downtime for this release?
No.
Tax Updates
The latest round of tax updates from the Symmetry tax engine were released. They contain updates from the R5 release. In addition to rate updates, the following were additional changes.
Benefit applicability corrected for New Jersey labor taxes
Symmetry corrected how employer benefit contributions are handled for the following New Jersey labor taxes:
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New Jersey Employer SDI
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New Jersey State Unemployment Tax
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NJ Work Force Development / Supplemental Work Force (
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New Jersey Family Leave Insurance
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New Jersey SDI
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New Jersey SUI
For these taxes, employer contributions to the following benefit types will now be treated as taxable and will increase the subject wages:
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Section 125
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401(k)
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Roth 401(k)
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SIMPLE IRA (3% Matching)
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SIMPLE IRA (2% Nonelective)
Value
Remaining compliant with taxes
Audience
Administrators.
Bugs Resolved
Functional
| Scenario When Issue Encountered | Issue Resolved |
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| SF Case 26983: City of Florence, Alabama Issue: When Business Calendars were either being created or extended and they would cross fiscal years, they were not being named correctly. So for example if in the middle of the calendar, one of the periods spanned from 2024 to 2025, the name would still have 2024 instead of being the first calendar in 2025. This was confusing users who saw a mismatch between the name and the period that it belonged to. | Resolved to correct this naming convention when the calendar is either being created or extended. So for example when creating a calendar with a start date of 12/29/2024 and each period had 14 days. Previously when creating the calendar the first record in that calendar would be like this:
After the change it has been fixed to be:
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| Fixed warning message when the benefit plan frequency doesn’t line up with the frequency associated with the payroll. Used to follow the pattern “<<PLAN NAME>> - The Plan did NOT pass Frequency Validation: NOT the X] Pay in Period”. | The second part was confusing so removed it, so it just says “<PLAN NAME>> - The Plan did NOT pass Frequency Validation” |