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Payroll Year-End, in plain English.
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Payroll year-end is the annual close where an employer reconciles the year's pay runs, verifies employee data, and produces statutory reporting: T4s and T4 Summary in Canada, W-2s in the United States, and the country equivalents elsewhere.
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Deadlines fall in the weeks after December 31. Workzoom generates year-end data from the payroll history on each employee record, and your team submits the filings.
How Payroll Year-End works.
Year-end is a reconciliation, not a calculation. Every figure already exists in the pay runs, so the work is confirming that the payroll record, the remittance record, and the employee data agree. Taxable benefits are the usual reason they do not, since benefits recorded outside payroll never entered the taxable base. Address and identification data matters as much as the money, because a form issued to a stale address or a wrong identifier fails at the employee rather than at the agency.
Where Payroll Year-End goes wrong.
- Treating year-end as a January project is the structural mistake.
- Taxable benefits, manual cheques, and unrecorded adjustments accumulate all year and are cheapest to fix in the period they occur.
- The second trap is reconciling only to the general ledger, which confirms the money moved without confirming it was attributed to the right employee.
- 2000 Running payroll since Workzoom has run Canadian payroll for 25+ years.
- Canadian data residency AWS Canada (ca-central-1). Canadian customer data stays in Canada.
- SOC 2-aligned controls Encrypted at rest, role-based access, immutable audit logs.
- Trusted in production County of Renfrew, Silvera for Seniors, and Cable Bahamas. Built for 50 to 5,000 employees.
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How Payroll Year-End runs on Workzoom.
Payroll Year-End is part of the Workzoom Payroll Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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