Local tax withholding rates - accurate with Symmetry Payroll Point®
Automate your local payroll that combines location data with the Symmetry Tax Engine® to deliver precise tax withholding rates based on latitude and longitude coordinates. With access to thousands of geospatial tax boundary shapefiles, Symmetry Payroll Point® boosts tax and wage rate accuracy at every level — federal, state, and local.
Symmetry Payroll Point® calculates precise wages and tax rates for the most complex tax withholding scenarios, based on latitude and longitude coordinates. The responses combine tax data from the Symmetry Tax Engine® with proprietary mapping technology and geospatial boundary maps to return the most accurate and up-to-date tax rates from our local tax API.
1Address
Enter the local home address and the work address into Symmetry Payroll Point. You can also search by latitude and longitude coordinates.
2Geocoding
Symmetry Payroll Point validates both addresses using true geocoding technology and determines latitude and longitude coordinates of the locations.
3Shapefiles
Symmetry Payroll Point uses coordinates with 35,000 geospatial tax boundary shapefiles from the U.S. Census Bureau, state tax jurisdictions, and Symmetry’s proprietary data.
4Local Tax Rates
Symmetry Payroll Point calls the Symmetry Tax Engine to retrieve values and return all applicable federal, state, local, and employer taxes and rates.
Payroll Point® Features
Advanced mapping technology
Leverages innovative geocoding technology to convert street addresses into geographic coordinates for precise rooftop accuracy on tax boundary shapefiles. Shapefiles include states, counties, cities, zip codes, jurisdictions, school district boundaries, and more.
Accurate multi-state localized taxes
Considers nexus and reciprocity with every input, so employees who live in one state and work in another will be onboarded correctly and taxed appropriately. Also provides local tax information such as Ohio JEDDs and JEDZs and Pennsylvania Act 32 PSD codes.
Increase your tax compliance
Increases payroll tax compliance while reducing notices, inquiries, incorrect taxation, W‑2cs, and inaccurate wages. Local maps locations and displays accurate values for addresses.
Clients
Who will love it?
Payroll managers struggling with local tax determination.
Product managers searching for a way to increase accuracy and compliance in taxation.
Employers looking to audit or onboard a large number of employees into a payroll or HR system.
Payroll software companies looking for a web service that incorporates local tax data into a payroll system or application via XML.
Payroll and HR professionals needing address normalization for data-cleansing.
"Payroll Point has helped Sodexo accurately withhold local taxes for their employees, and has reduced tax jurisdiction notices, employee tax corrections, and W‑2Cs."
Laura Winters, Manager of Payroll Tax at Sodexo
"Payroll Point batch is saving us 10 hours a week."
Patricia Clapp, Payroll & Employee Services Manager at Apex Systems
Symmetry Payroll Point makes over 150 million tax look-ups each year.
Symmetry Payroll Point uses the latest technology to allow you to embed payroll directly into your platform to accurately determine complex federal, state, and local taxes based on work and residential addresses.
Symmetry Payroll Point provides flexibility for implementation, including two versions to fit your business needs. With the API and Portal, you get the same accurate local tax determination results. What varies is how you access the technology and how many transactions you perform at one time. Also available in a Minimum Wage Finder.
Embeds directly within your payroll platform to pull employee information and automate tax withholding settings to complete payroll and keep you compliant. Ideal for implementation into payroll systems and for large employers looking for a simplified and automated integration of local tax determination.
The API is a technically driven experience. Payroll departments would have to work in tandem with developers to enable this solution.
Integrate this local tax withholding software into your application via JSON.
Can pass multiple work addresses for each employee within the same call.
Symmetry Payroll Point posts addresses and returns jurisdictional results directly into your internal payroll system via JSON.
Modern, more secure authentication using JSON Web Token (JWT) authorization.
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Local Tax Portal
A modern and powerful user interface to return precise taxes using the Symmetry Payroll Point maps and batch technology. Troubleshoot addresses to focus on challenging home and work address combinations. Gather detailed tax withholding for thousands of employees by processing a group of addresses at once.
Portal maps
The maps interface identifies tax jurisdictions with geospatial visualizations, making it quicker to research complex taxing scenarios.
Run a quick tax lookup with an employee’s home and work addresses, exact latitudes and longitudes, or by dragging a pin to an exact location on the map.
Specify the pay date, the employer’s nexus status, and the employee’s nonresident certificate status.
Toggle between different satellite and street views and customize how geospatial boundaries, such as cities and school districts, are displayed on the map.
See employer and employee taxes side-by-side with the map and location details.
Portal batch
The batch processing is streamlined for easier upload, review, and export of tax results.
Save time by running multiple tax lookups at once.
Create batches by importing CSV files or by manually adding work and home addresses.
Run batch lines automatically and see all your tax results in one place.
Portal reports
Customize templates to download results to your specifications. Select from over 80 fields from geocoding results, tax information, and location information. Payroll tax information such as taxing authority, rate, effective date, and wage type are also included.
Geocoding
Why geocoding is so important when it comes to local tax determination
Geocoding provides geographical coordinates corresponding to a location, in Symmetry Payroll Point’s case, the employees’ home and work addresses. We then apply these latitude and longitude coordinates to tax boundary shapefiles in order to precisely return the taxes that apply to each employee.
In some cases, a coordinate that is just a few meters off could result in a completely different tax setup! That is why our ability to pinpoint the rooftop location of employees’ home and work addresses translates to the most accurate tax determination.
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What is Symmetry Payroll Point?
What is Symmetry Payroll Point? Symmetry Payroll Point is a local tax withholding software that combines tax data from the Symmetry Tax Engine with advanced mapping technology to pinpoint accurate federal, state, and local withholding taxes to set up employees’ withholding rates directly within your payroll system or HR software application.
What taxes does Symmetry Payroll Point return?
Symmetry Payroll Point returns all employer and employee withholding taxes that apply, such as state unemployment insurance tax (SUI) for both the employer and employee, FICA (social security and Medicare) state withholding, and local withholding and rates for the employee. Symmetry Payroll Point also returns normalized addresses along with municipality, school district, and PSD codes if applicable.
How does Symmetry Payroll Point work?
Symmetry Payroll Point is a local tax finder where users enter a work and/or resident address along with a date into Symmetry Payroll Point, which then normalizes and geocodes the addresses and applies the latitude and longitude to our 35,000 geospatial files. Based on the location(s) and date, Symmetry Payroll Point then returns all the withholding taxes that apply. To determine the correct taxes, it does four things:
Validates work and home addresses provided by the client.
Determines the exact longitude and latitude coordinates for the locations.
Applies coordinates to 35,000 geospatial tax boundary shapefiles.
Calls the Symmetry Tax Engine to retrieve values and returns all applicable federal, state, local, and employer taxes and rates.
What taxing jurisdiction shapefile boundaries does Symmetry Payroll Point provide?
Symmetry Payroll Point contains taxing jurisdiction shapefiles for all federal, state, county, city, school district, municipalities, PSD, Jeddz and Jedds.
Interested in tracking accurate minimum wage rates?
Symmetry Payroll Point returns minimum wage rates and future changes for an exact location, using the same geocoding technology as it does for local tax information. Learn more about our minimum wage finder.
