setting up Canadian payroll - inputting historical totals. For employer taxes - do I add total remittance amount including employee and employer or just employer amount

Hello there, Chris. You don't need to add the employee portion of the remittance amount. Since you’ve already recorded the gross pay and tax deductions on the individual employee side, QuickBooks Online is already tracking those withholdings.

Because the system already has that data, you only need to enter the employer’s portion. This includes the matching CPP and the 1.4x EI contribution. Please note that adding the full remittance amount would result in doubling the employee's portion in your records.

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