Your Take-Home Pay

This system is a simulated process to manage a payroll for a small business.

This system shows how the Google App Engine can support routine business applications, and is intended mainly as a 'showcase' and/or proof-of-concept for how to build business application programs. At the present time, there are no plans to offer this service for use at a real business ... but if you're interested, let's talk!

Note: this system is currently not connected to anything, so please do not try to use it to manage a real payroll! You are welcome, if you like, to use it to try calculating, or re-calculating, any real payroll amounts, or make something up. Warning: your connection through the Internet is not secure, so if you send real data to this system, someone else could, possibly, see it.

The system includes the current, correct, tax tables for Federal income tax and FICA withholding, and for (only) the State of California income tax withholding. If you really have an interest in seeing the system calculate tax withholding amounts for another state, contact me, at GarrettDavisCPA@gmail.com, and if I have time, I can probably load other state tax tables.

The payroll calculations in this application are intended solely for use as a demonstration of the abilities of GAWSH framework, but can be used to provide general guidance and estimates of payroll tax calculations. They should not be relied upon to calculate exact taxes, payroll or other financial data, and are not intended to provide tax or legal advice. You should consult with an accountant or a professional financial advisor if you have specific payroll concerns.

Your employer's payroll system may calculate taxes slightly differently: small differences are acceptable to tax authorities.

Also, if you try to verify any of these calculations, be careful with tax calculations involving a 401(k) contribution, such as the simulated data for "Scarlett O'Hara" in this system. Contributions to a 401(k) plan are subtracted from income subject to federal withholding - lowering the income tax withholding - but are not subtracted from income when calculating FICA (Social Security) tax payments.

There are quite a few more functions that this system needs before it could handle all of the payroll complexities that a real company might have, such as: electronic deposits, electronic filing of employer tax returns, and some special pay situations like taxable tip reporting and tax-exempt employees.

If you have any questions, problems, suggestions, etc. please contact Garrett Davis, at GarrettDavisCPA@gmail.com.