The “Qualified Sick Leave Wages” section is listed as question #9 under Part 3 of Form 941-X, which is needed to claim the employee retention tax credit. Instructions are below for the Qualified Sick Leave Wages section.
Key 941-X Tax Form Takeaways:
- Correction of Sick Leave Wages Reporting: Understand the specific lines on Form 941-X for correcting previously misreported qualified sick leave wages, ensuring accuracy in your tax filings.
- Social Security Tax Adjustments: Learn how to adjust the social security tax for qualified sick leave wages paid during a specific period, which are not subject to the employer’s share of social security tax.
- Calculating the Tax Correction: Gain insights into how to calculate the tax correction amount by using the difference in reported and actual qualified sick leave wages, ensuring correct tax liabilities are met.
See Important 2024 Employee Retention Tax Credit Deadline Information at the Bottom of This Article.
Form 941-X:
9. Qualified Sick Leave Wages
Part 3: Enter the corrections for this quarter. If any line doesn’t apply, leave it blank.
9. Qualified sick leave wages* (Form 941 or 941-SS, line 5a(i), Column 1)
Adjusted Employer’s QUARTERLY Federal Tax Return or Claim for Refund
Part 3, “9. Qualified Sick Leave Wages“ from Form 941X published by the Department of the Treasury – Internal Revenue Service (IRS), OMB No. 1545-0029, revised in April 2022.
Instructions for Form 941-X:
9. Qualified Sick Leave Wages
TIP: Adjustments to the social security tax on qualified sick leave wages and qualified family leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, are reported on Form 941‐X, lines 9 and 10, respectively. Adjustments to the nonrefundable portion of the credit for qualified sick and family leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, are reported on Form 941‐X, line 17, and adjustments to the refundable portion of the credit are reported on Form 941‐X, line 25. Adjustments to qualified health plan expenses allocable to qualified sick leave wages and to qualified family leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, are reported on Form 941‐X, lines 28 and 29, respectively. If you claimed the credit for qualified sick and family leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, on your original Form 941 for the quarter, and you make any corrections on Form 941‐X for the quarter to amounts used to figure this credit, you’ll need to refigure the amount of this credit using Worksheet 1. You’ll also use this worksheet to figure this credit if you’re claiming the credit for the first time on Form 941-X. For more information about the credit for qualified sick and family leave wages, go to IRS.gov/PLC.
Qualified sick leave wages paid with respect to leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, aren’t subject to the employer share of social security tax; therefore, the tax rate on these wages is 6.2% (0.062). For more information about qualified sick leave wages, see Definition of qualified sick and family leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, later, and go to IRS.gov/PLC. If you’re correcting the qualified sick leave wages you reported on Form 941, line 5a(i), column 1, enter the total corrected amount in column 1. In column 2, enter the amount you originally reported or as previously corrected. In column 3, enter the difference between columns 1 and 2.
Multiply the amount in column 3 by 0.062 and enter that result in column 4.
Note. If you erroneously reported qualified sick leave wages for leave taken after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, on Form 941, line 5a, instead of on line 5a(i), you’ll need to make a correction on Form 941-X, lines 8 and 9, and enter the properly calculated amount in column 4 for each line.
Example – Qualified sick leave wages increased. You paid $2,000 of qualified sick leave wages to only one of your employees in the second quarter of 2020. In March 2022, you discovered that you only reported $1,000 of qualified sick leave wages on Form 941 for the second quarter. To correct the error, figure the difference on Form 941‐X as shown.
Use the difference in column 3 to determine your tax correction.
Be sure to explain the reasons for this correction on line 43.
Adjusted Employer’s QUARTERLY Federal Tax Return or Claim for Refund
Instructions for Part 3, “9. Qualified Sick Leave Wages“ came from the IRS Instructions for Form 941-X published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Department of the Treasury, revised in April 2022.
Conclusion and Summary on 941-X: 9. Qualified Sick Leave Wages, Form Instructions
The “Qualified Sick Leave Wages” section is just one of forty three detailed questions and calculations you must complete correctly on the 941X IRS Form. Listed as question #9 under Part 3 of the 941X, be sure to answer the Qualified Sick Leave Wages question #9 correctly.
How To Fill Out Form 941-X For the Employee Retention Tax Credit?
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