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1. Tax Engine: Tax Engine Update 

Background: This release incorporates two updates which were needed to address calculation corrections and add new jurisdiction support.

What's New?

The following tax changes are included from this update:

  • Oregon PFML employer pickup contributions added to SUTA taxable wages
  • Pennsylvania: corrected supplemental wage reporting when multiple EIT taxes are set to the same location
  • PFML tax calculation corrections
  • Ohio: Athens City Tax updated from 1.95% to 2.15%; Brimfield-Kent JEDD tax added; Kent Franklin JEDD tax updated to RITA; Pemberville City Tax updated to RITA
  • Oregon: Eugene Community Safety Payroll Tax employee portion threshold updated from 1,304 to 2,344
  • Alaska tax bracket updates effective January 1, 2026
  • Trump account benefit type added
  • Oregon employer pickup for Worker's Benefit Fund Assessment
  • Kentucky: Falmouth OLF tax added
  • Ohio: Jersey New Albany JEDD I, II, and III taxes added; Aberdeen City Tax increased from 1% to 2%
  • Pennsylvania EITs updated: Collingdale Borough of Southeast Delco SD, Liberty Township Melrose Area SD, and Springfield Township Springfield SD
  • Philadelphia City Tax updated effective July 1
  • Georgia withholding decrease effective January 1, 2026

2. Payroll Enterprise Wizard: Pay Run Assistant — New Error Visibility

Background: New validation errors were introduced on the Review and Submit step of the Payroll Enterprise Wizard, but these errors were not being surfaced in the Pay Run Assistant. For clients managing large employee counts, the Pay Run Assistant is a critical tool for detecting and resolving issues before submitting payroll. Without these errors appearing there, clients risked missing them entirely or only discovering them after extensive manual review, increasing the likelihood of incorrect payroll submissions.

What's New?

The Pay Run Assistant in the Payroll Enterprise Wizard has been updated to surface the following new errors:

  • Time off pay hours exceed the employee's available balance (hours and earnings warning)
  • An earning was added to meet minimum wage requirements (hours and earnings warning)
  • Direct deposit has changed since the pay run was started (employee warning)
  • A primary work location cannot be determined, so SUTA will not calculate for the affected employee (employee warning)

Each new error is consistent with the display pattern of existing Pay Run Assistant errors, and clients can drill down from the Pay Run Assistant to the specific employee or earning record to take corrective action.

3. Payroll Enterprise Wizard: Employees Step Updates on Adjustment Runs

Background: The Payroll Enterprise Wizard was displaying an "Add Employees" button on the Employees step of adjustment pay runs, and the step description matched that of a standard scheduled pay run. This created confusion, as employees on adjustment runs are predetermined and cannot be changed mid-run the same way they can on a scheduled run.

What's New?

The Employees step on adjustment pay runs in the Enterprise Wizard has been updated to match the behavior of the standard wizard:

  • The "Add Employees" button (including manual add and import options) has been removed from adjustment pay runs.
  • The step description now reads: "The employees on this screen are the ones that you selected for the adjustment. If you wish to change the employees listed, please cancel this pay run and re-start the adjustment."

4. MA PFML: Separate Family and Medical Leave Contribution Tracking

Background: Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (MA PFML) electronic filing requires contribution shares to be reported separately for Family Leave and Medical Leave; four discrete values in total: Family-Employer, Family-Employee, Medical-Employer, and Medical-Employee. Previously, Greenshades processed only two aggregated tax codes (one employer, one employee), each combining both leave types into a blended amount. This made it impossible to populate the four required fields in the MA PFML wage report, creating a compliance gap for clients filing through Greenshades.

What's New?

Four subaccount tax codes have been introduced to replace the two MA PFML codes, breaking the tax detail into the required components:

  • Family Leave – Employer
  • Family Leave – Employee
  • Medical Leave – Employer
  • Medical Leave – Employee

These four amounts are now stored individually in the Tax Details table within Pay History at the time of payroll calculation. The MA PFML efile process reads these values directly to calculate each leave type's contribution share percentage, ensuring accurate and compliant reporting without any estimated or derived math.