W-2, 1099, T4 and T4A

Year-end slips from the books you already keep

W-2s and the SSA's EFW2 file, 1099-NEC for contractors, and in Canada T4, T4A and T5018 slips: totalled from the year's paychecks and payments, checked for missing details, ready to file or hand to your accountant.

Included in AcboBooks for $399.99 once, with no per-form fee.

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No card, no account. Windows 10 and 11. United States and Canada.

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What it means

In practice

Totals you don't retype

Slips are built from the paychecks and vendor payments already in your books, so the figures match your payroll reports and ledger.

Missing details fixed in place

The wizard lists every contractor paid over the reporting threshold, and lets you fill in a missing tax ID or address right there. Employees without an SSN or SIN are marked on the slip list.

Filed the way you prefer

The EFW2 file uploads to the SSA's Business Services Online. T4 and T4A figures go into the CRA's Web Forms. Or give the reports to your accountant.

The year's paychecks become the W-2s and T4s.

January is a checklist, not a scramble

Run the 1099 wizard, review the vendors it found, add the one missing tax ID, and print. Then the W-2s from the payroll you ran all year.

In Canada the same morning gives you the T4 Summary and each slip, and T5018 for construction subcontractors.

What is in the licence

The whole job, in one price

United States

W-2 for each employee

SSA EFW2 electronic file

1099-NEC wizard with vendor review

Forms 941 and 940 worksheets

Canada

T4 slips and T4 Summary

T4A for contractors and other income

T5018 for construction subcontracts

Record of Employment worksheet

Checks

Contractors over the threshold listed

Missing tax IDs and addresses filled in the wizard

Employees without an SSN or SIN marked

Totals match payroll reports

All year

Mark vendors as 1099 or T4A

Payments categorised as you pay

Year-to-date payroll totals

Closed periods protect filed years

Year-end tasks from the same menus you use all year.

What it does not do

· It does not e-file with the IRS, SSA or CRA for you; it produces the file and figures to submit.

· No 1099-MISC, 1099-INT or Quebec RL-1 slips yet.

· Windows 10 and 11 for now (a Mac version is coming soon); no phone app.

· One company per file; open as many files as you have businesses.

Questions people ask

Before you download

Can I e-file W-2s with it?

AcboBooks writes the EFW2 file the Social Security Administration accepts; you upload it through the SSA's Business Services Online. Businesses filing 10 or more information returns in total must file electronically.

Which 1099 forms does it produce?

1099-NEC for nonemployee compensation, the form most small businesses need for contractors. Other 1099 types are not produced.

When are the slips due?

W-2 and 1099-NEC are due to employees, contractors and the government by January 31. Canadian T4 and T4A slips are due by the last day of February. See our blog for this year's dates.