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PAO 4-4

Section: ACCOUNTING AND REMITTANCE

Subsection: TAX RECONCILIATION

  OUTLINE
  Procedures for reconciling TAX accounts to the Financial Controls in the Master Employee Record (MER).
  At month end the following accounts in the Common Departmental Financial System (CDFS) must be reconciled with the Financial Controls in the MER. Each account is accumulated on a year to date (YTD) basis in an element resident on the MER.
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TITLE MER ELEMENT
Federal -- Tax Wage Loss and No-wage Loss 704
Provincial Tax 705
CPP -- Wage Loss and No-wage Loss 708
QPP 709
EI -- No-wage Loss 715
EI -- Wage Loss 716
Federal Gratuity Tax 729
Quebec Gratuity Tax 730
Parental Insurance Plan (PIP) 761

  PROCEDURES
  MONTH END -- After the remittance of the TAX accounts for week 4 and once interdepartmental settlement (IS) Creditor initiated to charge Treasury Board for the employer's (ER) share has been approved,
 
  • ENSURE sufficient time for updating to CDFS.
 
  • ENSURE all further postings for manual transactions to CDFS match a PAC 30, processed in the applicable accounting month and approved.
 
  • PRINT a detailed report for the above accounts for each pay office from CDFS.
    LOTUS SPREADSHEET -- A lotus spreadsheet has been developed for this reconciliation between the MER and CDFS. It includes the following information:
 
 
  • Financial Control Figures (Current Month and To-date);
 
  • CDFS Figures (Current Month and To-date);
 
  • Outstanding PAC 30s;
 
  • Outstanding Documents;
 
  • Bulk Transfer Amounts;
 
  • Remittance Amounts;
 
  • Employers Share Amounts (if applicable).
   
  • IDENTIFY and INVESTIGATE all PAC 30s with no offsetting document or PAC 30 and all documents with no offsetting PAC 30 or document and LIST on Spreadsheet.
   
  • CONTINUE investigations until the financial control (FC) totals equal the CDFS totals (current and to-date).
   
  • Finally SEPARATE reconciliation to verify if the Ledger to date CDFS totals less the outstanding items equal "zero".

Last Update: December 2005

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