Our staff just finished US payroll files for 2025.
Similar to last year, we only updated federal tables, plus tax tables for a few larger states. If your state wasn’t updated, please contact us and we will provide them. We did update SUTA cutoff amounts for every state (the actual % rate you pay varies for each company).
Starting this year, US Federal tax tables are in a separate file. Importing payroll withholding tables is now a two-step process: once for the state, once for Federal.
The change saves us a few hours of tedious copy/pasting. No need to put the latest Federal tables into 51 state files. More importantly, it also makes the setup process more reliable. A few times in past years, we pasted into the wrong cell. That totally zaps all the data, and results in extremely wacky withholding amounts (or zero withholding, depending).
Each annual update requires us to type in several hundred numbers. Most years we also need to redo table setup for one or two states. Some tax departments find extremely weird ways to calculate withholding. So, anything we can do to simplify the process is worthwhile.
We probably will be able to go back to a full 50-state-plus-DC update starting in January 2026. However, right now our staff is very busy finishing the new 64-bit accounting software. We don’t want to spend an extra couple days typing in numbers that won’t be used.
Dennis Kolva
Programming Director
TurtleSoft.com
