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Our pastor gets to claim an income deduction that is called "housing exclusion" which goes into Box 14 on the W-2. However, I cannot figure out how to have this calculate into his taxable wages for the 941 report. It is not real money paid to anyone... just a reduction of reportable income. So far I...

The Methodist church (globally) provides group term life insurance to pastors, and the cost of that coverage must be reported as additional income for the pastor. It is NOT an expense of our church. I cannot find a way to add income to him without it being an expense to us. Will I just have to manua...

thanks so much! In previous years I was never this so far ahead in my work! Sue

I have run my final payroll for 2025 and gone through the W-2 assistant screens to get all dollar amounts correct. However, on the final screen, the box to print the W-2's on plain paper is grayed out and I cannot print them. Have I missed a step, or does Power Church have to do some final formattin...

We will be receiving a large bequest soon and opening our first investment account. how do we account for the unrealized gains and losses reflected on the monthly statement? This is a new restricted fund (building fund) and we intend to use the unrestricted income for operating expenses.

Aha! Perfect solution, thanks!

Thanks for your quick response! But how do I issue two separate checks through Payroll to the same individual? Do I need to edit the pay items each time I "process payroll", making one item $0 and then process payroll for him a second time making the other income item $0??

Our pastor receives a salary, and an additional income item of "housing allowance". He has numerous deductions for insurance premiums, retirement contribution, and voluntary Federal tax w/h. Currently all of this is issued in one paycheck, with all these pay items in one screen. He would like his ho...

We have been using PC for 6 years, and now realize we could really improve our reports if we reorganized some of the chart of accounts. We use Version 12. I'm not certain if the past history of an account will follow if I change it's number. For example: we have expense account for Phones & Internet...

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much for your clear advice. We'll discuss which route to take!

I have a temporarily restricted fund 01-3272 that should actually have a higher balance - there is money in a CD that belongs in this fund. The CD of course needs to remain as an open bank account. So to increase the fund balance by $20,000, I know i need to credit 01-3272. But what account do I deb...

We set up a Repairs Reserve fund years ago and treated it as temporarily restricted. We now realize that as a board directed fund (the board transferred money from the general fund into this one as a rainy day fund) it it not a donor restricted fund at all. I have tried deleting it under the "mainta...

Can we run PC version 12 on a new Windows 11 computer? We've been using Windows 10 since we began using Power Church.

We pay our pastor an "income" item which fits under the PC "Housing Allowance" section in Payroll and works just fine. However, he is also eligible for a tax deduction called "Housing Exclusion Allowance" (section 107 of the IRS code), which does not effect his net pay, but is an annual income deduc...