AccountEdge Pro Release r33.0.2.2

Important Installation Notes:This update is recommended for all AccountEdge customers and should be installed on all computers running AccountEdge.This update includes a fix for an AppleEvents error that occured for some users.

Payroll & Product Update

  • January 01, 2024 Payroll Compliance Update

  • Federal Income Withholding Tax Brackets have been adjusted. Rates remain unchanged.

  • Federal Social Security Wage Base Increases to $168,600.

  • Alaska Increases the Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $49,700 and Decreases the Unemployment Insurance Rate to 0.5%.

  • Arkansas Adjusts Withholding Methods and Increases the Standard Deduction to $2,340.

  • California Adjusts Withholding Methods, Increases State Allowance to $158.40, and Increases Standard Deduction to $5,363 or $10,726 depending on filing status.

  • California Increases Disability Rate to 1.1% and eliminates the Taxable Wage Base.

  • Colorado Adjusts Withholding Formula and Increases Exemption Allowance to $5,000 (single) and $10,000 (married).

  • Colorado Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $23,800.

  • Connecticut Adjusts Withholding Method and reduces the two lowest tax rates to 2% and 4.5%.

  • Connecticut Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $25,000.

  • Georgia Adjusts Withholding Methods and Increases Standard Deduction to $24,000 for Married filing Jointly Status and $12,000 for all other statuses.

  • Hawaii Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $61,800.

  • Idaho Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $53,500.

  • Illinois Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $13,590.

  • Indiana Decreases Flat Rate Tax to 3.05% and Increases Tax Rates for 11 Counties.

  • Iowa Adjusts Withholding Formula and now uses three tax brackets of 4.4%, 4.82%, and 5.7%, instead of the four brackets used in 2023.

  • Iowa Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $38,200.

  • Kentucky Adjusts Withholding Method and now uses a decreased tax rate of 4%, and a standard deduction of $3,160, up from $2,980.

  • Kentucky Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $11,400.

  • Maine Adjusts Withholding Methods. The value of a State Allowance Increases to $5,000 and the Maximum Standard Deduction Increases to $11,750 for Single Status and $26,350 for Married Status.

  • Massachusetts Updates Withholding Methods.

  • Michigan Adjusts Withholding Rate back to 4.25%, from 4.05%.

  • Minnesota Adjusts Withholding Tables.

  • Minnesota Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $42,000.

  • Mississippi Decreases Income Tax Withholding Rate to 4.7%.

  • Missouri Adjusts Withholding Methods and Increases the Standard Deduction to $29,200 for Married Status, $21,900 for Head of Household Status, and $14,600 for all other statuses.

  • Missouri Decreases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $10,000.

  • Montana Adjusts Withholding Methods. The new guide uses a percentage method with tax brackets of zero, 4.7%, and 5.9%, instead of four tax brackets with rates ranging from 1.8% to 6.6%.

  • Montana Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $43,000.

  • Nebraska Adjusts Withholding Methods. The top three tax rates were also decreased to 5.77%, 5.94%, and 6.1%. The value of a state allowance increased to $2,250.

  • Nevada Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $40,600.

  • New Jersey Increases Family Leave Rate to 0.09% and the Taxable Wage Base increases to $161,400.

  • New Jersey Increases Unemployment Insurance and Work Force Taxable Wage Base to $42,300 and increases Temporary Disability Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $161,400.

  • New Mexico Adjusts Withholding Methods.

  • New Mexico Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $31,500.

  • New York Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $12,500.

  • North Carolina Adjusts Withholding Methods. The rate used for withholding, including supplemental payments, is 0.1 percentage points higher than the actual income tax rate, meaning withholding uses a rate of 4.6% in 2024, down from 4.85%.

  • North Carolina Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $31,200.

  • North Dakota Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $43,800.

  • Oklahoma Adjusts Withholding Methods.

  • Oklahoma Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $27,000.

  • Oregon Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $52,800 and Increases Family-Leave Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $168,600.

  • Rhode Island Adjusts Withholding Methods. The value of a state allowance remained $1,000 annually, but the annual wage threshold above which the value of an allowance becomes zero increased to $274,650.

  • Rhode Island Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $29,200. The Temporary Disability Insurance Rate Increases to 1.2% and the Taxable Wage Base Increases to $87,000.

  • South Carolina Adjusts Withholding Methods. The formula uses three tax brackets with rates of zero, 3%, and 6.4%. The value of a State Allowance increased to $4,610 and the Maximum Standard Deduction increased to $6,925.

  • Utah Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $47,000.

  • Vermont Adjusts Withholding Tables. The value of a State Allowance increased to $5,100.

  • Vermont Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $14,300.

  • Washington Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $68,500.

  • Washington Increases Family-Leave Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $168,600.

  • Wyoming Increases Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base to $30,900.

  • Enhancements & Resolved Issues

  • Added a Preference to Hide Zero Currency Amounts in Forms

  • Sales Register Amounts Missing Labels

Office 2019 (16.78)

The October 2023 update (16.78) is the last build that supports Office 2019 license types.

Support for Office 2019 for Mac ended on October 10, 2023. Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps will continue to function—they won't disappear from your Mac, nor will you lose any data. However, you could expose yourself to serious and potentially harmful security risks.

EOL MailSuite

MailSuite will not work with Sonoma - macOS 14

Apple has permanently disabled the ability to load any Mail plugin in macOS 14.

MailSuite and Sonoma 😢

Apple announced it would stop allowing Mail plugins in a future operating system when it announced macOS 11 (Big Sur) in 2021. That time has come. Although it has not made a formal announcement, Mail on macOS 14 (Sonoma) will no longer load Mail Plugins.

About Mail Extensions

To provide an alternative to plugins, Apple introduced Mail Extensions in 2021. However, extensions' access to Mail is nowhere near enough to facilitate the functionality needed for MailSuite’s components to work within Mail.

As an analogy, Mail Plugins invited developers into Mail like a roommate. They could make themselves at home, change the look and feel a bit, add some of their own stuff, and rearrange the furniture. Mail Extensions, on the other hand, ask the developer to wait at the door and respond to specific requests Mail makes.

There is no mechanism to add tags to messages so that they appear in the Snippet or List view. Extensions cannot apply rules to outgoing messages. They cannot set up a separate window to display selected messages, and Mail Extensions cannot change email signatures—all things MailSuite needs to work.