<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">So are we responsible for the tax or the employees? I am trying to understand the law exactly how it reads. There seems to be some uncertainties. It is a taxable benefit?</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><i><b>Heather A. Reale</b></i></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Interim Director of Finance </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Wells-Ogunquit Community School District</span></div><div><font size="4" color="#ffff00"><a href="mailto:hreale@wocsd.org" target="_blank">hreale@wocsd.org</a></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#073763">207-641-6909<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:45 AM Krol, Gabrielle <<a href="mailto:gabrielle.krol@msad52.org">gabrielle.krol@msad52.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, I took the total salaries in each area, and multiplied that by .5%- that will give me 1% for 1/2 the year, I added that in each of the benefit lines in the budget entry portion of ADS while entering the other budget lines. So not for each individual person, but in each category.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM Heather Reale <<a href="mailto:hreale@wocsd.org" target="_blank">hreale@wocsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">So you took your total salaries for FY25 budget and took 1% and divided by 2 for the 6 month period. Did you use a total or break it out by school, dept etc? </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><i><b>Heather A. Reale</b></i></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Interim Director of Finance </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Wells-Ogunquit Community School District</span></div><div><font size="4" color="#ffff00"><a href="mailto:hreale@wocsd.org" target="_blank">hreale@wocsd.org</a></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#073763">207-641-6909<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:01 AM Krol, Gabrielle <<a href="mailto:gabrielle.krol@msad52.org" target="_blank">gabrielle.krol@msad52.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We did the same thing- budgeted 1% for 6 months of all salaries, in the same lines that our state and federal taxes post to.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 7:47 AM Pete Orne <<a href="mailto:pete.orne@fivetowns.net" target="_blank">pete.orne@fivetowns.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">We coded the same way. As State unemployment. We did budget 100% of the cost for FY25 (half year, so 0.5%).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pete <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Pete Orne, SFO<br>Business Manager<br>Camden-Rockport/Fivetown CSD<br>22 Knowlton St.<br>Camden, ME 04843<br><br> <br><a href="mailto:pete.orne@fivetowns.net" target="_blank">pete.orne@fivetowns.net</a><br><br><br>Inline image<br><br>Inline image<br><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 7:32 AM Cheryl Fournier <<a href="mailto:CFournier@sanford.org" target="_blank">CFournier@sanford.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I used the Unemployment tax object code to post it in the budget as it is a state tax. My superintendent and I agreed to only book the employer portion at .5% (had to build it as .25% for the full year, per profund) as we can not handle
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on at the same time we are all preparing to present our budgets, I'm tempted to prepare for the worst and budget the full 1% based on a January 1, 2025 start date, as I would much rather be able to reduce my cost estimates for second reading than have to add
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