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SIT Pretax Balance Not Fed When Negative Deduction Is Processed Without Earnings
When we try to process a negative pretax deduction adjustment in a period with no earnings the State and Local tax balances are not updated as expected. Federal tax balances are updated correctly but according to bug 8564308 the state and local tax balances are calculated differently. The difference in the way these balances are calculated makes it not feasible to fix this issue. To my knowledge there are two workarounds for this issue but only 1 is acceptable and it is time consuming. The unacceptable workaround is to add .01 of regular earnings in the period so that there are earnings to use in the calculation. This may work from a technical standpoint but from a functional standpoint it is incorrect. The person would then appear to have earnings that they never actually had. The other