>Leland,
> What I really need is a program from a company that provides a tax rate subscription service on a national basis such as Intuit. In Maryland, for example, you have a state tax and a county tax. The county tax is based on a percentage of the state tax with each county having a different rate. In some areas you can also have a town tax on top of that. Pennsylvania gets really strange.
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>Thanks,
>John.
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>>Hi John,
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>>You might take a look at an app I am developing called Software - Master (TM). It is an accounting application and handles payroll. Once the gross amount earned by an employee is calculated, the program automatically calculates federal withholding and social security.
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>>Texas does not have a state income tax so we do need to worry about withholding from gross pay at a state level down here. The payroll app does not currently support automatic calculation of state withholding, so if Maryland has a state income tax, it would be necessary to look this up in your state withholding tables and enter it manually into the program.
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>>https://www.smvfp.com

John,

It may be more than you want to spend for what you're planning to do, but take a look at the Pro Series from ACCPAC (www.accpac.com) . They provide a PUP (payroll update plan) at around $400.00 per year. At a minimum you would have to purchase the System Manager Module, the Payroll module, support for 1 year, and the PUP. I think they might also still sell older versions of SBT software (VisionPoint 10) that are currently in maintenance mode. A new version of the Pro Series (7.0) has just been released that supports SQL server. You get all the source code with whatever modules you buy....if you want it...<g>