Setting Up a State Other Than the Resident State as the Base State

Access the Employee Payroll Revisions form.

Home State

Enter the employee's home state for the purpose of tax reporting. If you do not want to use the employee's resident state as the base state for year-end information processing, this code designates that the system-specified state be used instead.

For W-2 reporting, use the numeric value for the designated state (for example, 06 for Colorado, 05 for California, and so on). If you do not use the correct numerical value, the system produces undesirable report results. If you leave the Home State field blank, the system uses the value in the Tax Area (Resident) field on Pay and Tax Information form as the employee's resident state.

When you build the W-2 workfile, do not select the Resident State Equals Base State option on the Year-End Revisions form.