"I can tell you personally that in all my experience, JAT as an implementer along with the Lawson Team, are by far the best I have seen in my 25 years of public service."

Robert Hammond
Boulder Valley School District


Lawson Software - Solution for K-12

JAT Off-Standard Taxation
Enhancement to Lawson HR

JAT Off-Standard Taxation was developed to meet a set of unique requirements common to most school districts. Although districts usually pay many employees their annual salary based on standard payroll frequencies such as 52 weekly, 26 bi-weekly, 24 semi-monthly or 12 monthly payrolls per year, some employees, typically teachers, are paid an annual salary outside these frequencies.

For example, the need for the enhancement arises when a teacher is paid an annual salary over 20 semi-monthly periods (10 months) rather than a normal 24 (12 months).

JAT Off-Standard Taxation uses one or more standard Lawson employee groups to identify segments of the employee populations that fall in this irregularity. The actual number of annual pay periods is assigned to each group. During payroll calculation, the gross wages for the current period and the actual number of pay periods in a calendar year are passed to BSI Taxfactory, the Lawson tax calculation routine. BSI uses these two values to determine the appropriate tax bracket into which the employee falls for Federal, state, and local taxation.

Although JAT Off-Standard Taxation includes a new pay period set-up screen and an underlying database table, it was specifically designed to be separate, with seamless integration into Lawson, thereby providing minimal impact on future maintenance and upgrade cycles.

Additional benefits of the design using standard Lawson employee groups include:
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 Employee Groups are criteria driven. Using fields on the employee master, eligible employees requiring off-standard taxation are identified.
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 Maintenance of the group members is automated. As criteria change, employees are moved in and out of groups automatically. Newly hired or transferred employees are placed into the appropriate groups.
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 In addition to automatic group enrollment, employees can be manually added as necessary.
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 Any standard Lawson element can be used to set the criteria to determine membership in a group.

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