Employer "earned" payslip deduction items

[Brucanna]

Currently the “Payslip Deductions Items” is structurally limited to Balance Sheet Liability accounts as there is a presumption that payslip deduction items can only relate to external 3rd party transactions, however, there are situations that exist where the payslip deduction item is an internal transaction - employer to employee - and therefore require a direct P&L account allocation.

Some examples are:

1. An employer who charges rent for business owned accommodation
2. An employer who charges private usage for business owned vehicles
3. An employer who is legally required to show gross less deductions v’s truncated netted off entries.
4. An employer who makes any other formal financial arrangement with their employees, such as performance penalties, and wants it transparently disclosed on the payslip.

Currently, to circumnavigate this structural limitation is for the User to create the “deduction” as a Payslip Earnings Item and enter the amounts as negatives.

Previously, there have been several topics directly related to this limitation but as they were resolved via workaround solutions they never became a “feature request asking for this” where perhaps they should have been.

Payslip deductions are showing as "Payroll liabilities"

Payslip deductions are showing as “Payroll liabilities” when they should not be. I pay my staff via Western Union and it’s the member of staff who pays for the Western Union fee. I list the Western Union fee as a Deduction on the payslip. Then I note the NET pay and that’s the exact amount I record as an expense. However all of the deductions are showing as “Payroll liabilities”. Have I done something wrong?

Employee payroll - Deductions

Sometimes employees take unpaid leave. As we cannot reduce their monthly pay amount, we show the leave deductions in deduction loss of pay. These are now showing in payroll liabilities in summary page.

[Ealfardan]

Just to wake this thread up, here are some additional use cases for P&L accounts in the deductions:

@Rajwani

@Tut Thank you for your updates. I just tried to inquire on most relevant topics unfortunately topic is closed therefore I have to re-state my query separately again.

@Ealfardan

Is it possible to relax the excessive restrictions in these areas because it does not apply to every business everywhere.

@Mmf

how can i do the amount deduction from employee is other revenue account where account is related to only liabilities .
thank you

@cmnak

Tut,
Having gone through the payslip deductions write ups.
Did not see any solution as regards to treatment of staff lateness to work on payslip.

I know these are all quoted elsewhere but it just seems fitting to mention those here as well.

[lubos]

Added to the latest version (21.5.28)

[Ealfardan]

Cannot thank you enough @lubos

[abdulbari]

will it be possible to enable tracking code since the GL Ac hitting Profit and Loss

[Mahfuzur_Rahman]

Also, we need this feature.