AZ Quarterly SUI Report

Overview

The Arizona Quarterly State Unemployment Insurance Report is a mandatory filing for businesses that provide unemployement insurance coverage for their workers. PYRESRAZUI generates a file, a detail listing of employees, and a summary page.  The summary page will print on the specified forms printer and will print directly on the state-supplied blank summary page.  The process is designed to allow the user to control the print contents and print positions of the summary page.  

Obtaining the AZ Unemployment Tax and Wage Report/File 

The Quarterly SUI report is available via mask PYRESRAZUI.    

A four-digit tax year 
Enter the tax year for the report. 

A one-digit quarter number 
Enter the quarter for the report. 

Name of the file to be created 
Provide the name of the file that will be sent to the state authority requiring the Unemployment Tax and Wage report.  This file will be created in data directory. 

How would you like employees selected?  
This question and any following questions are standard questions asked by BusinessPLUS Payroll. 

Prerequisites 

A number of common codes need to be set up prior to running the process.  

Common Code PYFG/PY622C 

The process uses both a general purpose “data preparation” program and an Arizona specific reporting program.  See the separate document, “Common Code Control of State SUI Reports”, for setup instructions for PYFG/PY622C. 

Common Code PYFG/780AZ00 

Medium Description: Set to your seven-digit UI Tax Employer Number.  (The UI Tax Employer Number may contain a checkdigit in the eighth position.  Do not include this checkdigit in this field.) 

Long Description: Set this field to the escape sequence that will select the code 39 bar code font if a Scan Line bar code is to be printed.  (The sample escape sequence above is a sample only and doesn’t necessarily do anything.)  Use an “_” character in the escape sequence where the escape characters are to be used.  For example, on most printers “<esc>(s24H” sets the pitch.  This escape sequence would be entered as “_(s24H” in the long description if it was desired to set the pitch to 24. 

Associated Numeric Values 

1.  Set this to the Unemployment Tax Rate. 

2. Set this to the Job Training Tax Rate 

3. If you are not paying a late penalty, set this field to zero.  Otherwise set it to the Late Payment Interest Rate.  A zero in this field or a value in the field controls whether interest and penalties are reported on the summary page.  Normally this field will be zero.  If in a particular month, interest and penalties have to be paid, set this field to the appropriate value.  After generating the summary page, remember to set this field back to zero. 

4. Set this to the Late Payment Penalty Rate.  No penalty will be calculated if the Late Payment Interest Rate is zero. 

5. Set this to the Minimum Late Payment Penalty. 

Common Code PYFG/780AZ01 

Associated Numeric Values 

1. Set this to the Maximum Late Payment Penalty   

2. Set this to the upper SUI wage limit. 

Associated Codes 

1. If the organization must report employees by a UI Tax-Approved Branch Number, set this field to the EMPM attribute where the branch number is stored, otherwise leave this field blank. 

2. Set this field to “Y” if Job Training Tax is to be paid, otherwise set the field to “N”. 

3. Set this field to “Y” if the Federal ID is preprinted, otherwise set it to “N”. 

Common Code PYFG/780AZ02 

Associated Codes 

1. Set this field to “Y” if a sample summary page is to be printed with alignment gird numbers instead of the normal summary page, otherwise set the field to “N”.  A page with alignment grid numbers can be very useful when row/column positions are being determined for the summary page format.  Here’s how this works:  If you need to change the positioning of data on the Summary Page, first print the alignment grid.  Printing on plain paper is generally more useful.  Then, when determining the row/column positions, use the alignment grid to aid in determining exact positions. 

2. Set this field to “Y” if the organization is a Reimbursable Employer, otherwise set it to “N”. 

Common Codes PYFG/780AZS01 - PYFG/780AZS09 

Common codes PYFG/780AZS01 to PYFG/780AZS09 control the formatting of the summary page.  For these common codes, each Associated Numeric Value, Code, and Description form a “set” that will print one item.  The numeric value is the row position while the code is the column position.  Row/column positions can be specified to one decimal place, that is, 1/10^th of a row or 1/10^th of a column.  A value of 12.7 for a numeric value would print in row 12.7. 

The Associated Description determines the value to be printed.  This field can contain reserved words or free text.  If the value is not a reserved word, the process will assume it is free text and the free text will be printed at the specified row/column. 

Some of the reserved words include a “-ND” as a suffix where “ND” stands for No Decimal.  If these reserved words are used, the appropriate value will be printed with a blank character in place of the normal decimal place.  For example, 100.00 would print as 100  00. 

The following table lists the reserved words. 

The BAR-CODE reserved word, if used, must be the last print control item specified.  That is, once the process encounters BAR-CODE, the bar code is printed and the program exits.