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                                                                                                                              Publication 69
                                                                                                                                                (2/21)
                                    Electronic Reporting of Quarterly Combined
                                    Wage and Withholding Tax Information

                     Table of contents               Page                               Section 3 – Filing requirements
1 Introduction ...................................................................... 1 New York State requires employers/payers to electronically 
2 Compatibility .....................................................................1  filetheirquarterlywagereportingandwithholdingtax
3 Filing requirements ...........................................................1      information. Wage reporting upload is one option available 
4 Submission of test media ..................................................1          toelectronicallyfileyourinformationusingthe   Tax
5 Submission requirements .................................................2            Department’s Online Services at www.tax.ny.gov. Using this 
  Technicalspecifications    ....................................................2      optionlimitsthepotentialfordataentryerrors,simplifies
7 File formats .......................................................................3 filingfortheemployer/payer,andstreamlinesprocessing.
8 Correction procedures ......................................................5         EffectiveJanuary1,2019,employers/payersmustreport
  Testfileformat................................................................... 6   total unemployment insurance (UI) remuneration, gross 
For calendar quarters beginning on or after January 1,                                  federal wages or distribution subject to withholding, and total 
2021, there will be a new Online Services application for                               New York State, New York City, and Yonkers tax withheld for  
employers, payers and/or agents preparing reports for                                   each calendar quarter for each employee/payee paid during 
employers/payerstouploadwagereportingbulkfiles.      The                                the quarter you are reporting for.
newapplicationwillnolongerprocesswageuploadfilesthat                                    Note: The amounts you report are only the amounts paid or 
contain errors, including employer or employee data errors,                             withheld within the quarter you are reporting.
formatting errors, and nonfatal errors. The errors contained 
inthefilewillbedisplayedwithintheWebapplication.     All                                For tax years 2018 and prior, employers/payers must report 
errorsmustbecorrectedbeforeuploadingthefileforthefile                                   total UI remuneration paid to each employee each calendar 
tobeaccepted. Aftersubmittingafileanemailwillbesent                                     quarter. On the fourth quarter return (or the return covering 
forallsuccessfulandfaileduploadedfiles. Thefileformatin                                 the period in which an employer permanently ceases to pay 
this publication is not changing.                                                       wages), employers/payers must also report the cumulative 
                                                                                        total of gross federal wages or distribution subject to 
Section 1 – Introduction                                                                withholding, and total New York State, New York City, and 
                                                                                        Yonkers tax withheld.
This publication, which supersedes the 3/19 version, 
describesspecifications,formats,andlayoutsforuploading
                                                                                        Record retention
employee quarterly wage reporting and withholding tax 
information using the Tax Department's Online Services at                               Employers/payersmustretainacopyoftheuploadedfiles,
www.tax.ny.gov.                                                                         or be able to reconstruct the data, for at least four years after 
                                                                                        the due date of the report.
Employers/payers must report wage and withholding 
informationusingthespecificationsinthispublication.                                     Penalties
While some information on wage reporting and withholding                                Failingtoelectronicallyfileyourquarterlywagereportingand
isincludedinthispublication,specificdefinitionsand                                      withholding tax information may subject the employer/payer 
requirements are in Publication NYS-50, Employer's                                      to penalties and delays in processing.
Guide to Unemployment Insurance, Wage Reporting, and 
Withholding Tax.                                                                        Section 4 – Submission of test media
Ifyouhavequestionsregardingtechnicalspecifications,call                                 Employers, payers, and/or agents preparing reports for 
518-457-7105.                                                                           employers/payers,andfilerselectingtofileviaupload,are
                                                                                        requiredtosubmitatestfileusingtheformatspecifiedin
                                                                                        this publication. Test submissions should be submitted in 
Section 2 – Compatibility
                                                                                        the same format that will be used to submit actual return 
Formats previously submitted and successfully processed                                 information.
can continue to be submitted without change.
                                                                                        TransmitterswillsubmitatestuploadfileusingtheWeb
                                                                                        application and receive immediate results on the success or 
Need help?                                                                              failureofthefile. Transmitterswillnolongerneedtowaitup
                                                                                        to30daystobenotifiedofthesuccessorfailureofatest
  Visit our website at www.tax.ny.gov                                                   file.Uponsubmission,thetransmitterwillbenotifiedwithin
  •  get information and manage your taxes online                                       theWebapplicationifthefileissuccessful.Iftherearefatal
                                                                                        errorscontainedinthefile,theerrorswillbedisplayedwithin
  •  check for new online services and features
                                                                                        theWebapplication. Allerrorsmustbecorrectedbefore
Telephone assistance                                                                    uploadingthetestfileforthefiletobesuccessful.
Withholding Tax Information Center:     518-485-6654                                    Transmitters who plan on submitting information for more 
                                                                                        than a single employer/payer should include at least two 
To order forms and publications:        518-457-5431
                                                                                        employers/payers with at least 20 employee/payee records 
Text Telephone (TTY) or TDD             Dial 7-1-1 for the                              for each of the included employers.
  equipment users                   New York Relay Service
                                                                                        Refer to Section 7 for the upload format.



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Section 5 – Submission requirements                          paid this quarterfieldshouldbezero-filled.However,ifthe
Employers/payers submitting data via upload must not         employee/payee had gross federal wages or distribution 
sendthesamedataonpaper.      Agentsreportingforoneor         subject to withholding and New York State, New York City, 
more employers/payers must advise those employers not to     and Yonkers tax withheld in that quarter, you are required to 
submitseparatereportstothe   TaxDepartment.Onlyonefile       report those amounts for each employee/payee paid during 
is permitted.                                                the quarter.
The due dates for the employee wage reporting and            For tax year 2018 and prior, if the employee/payee does 
withholding data are:                                        not have any gross wages covered by unemployment 
                                                             insurance in New York State during quarters one, two, or 
       Quarter                         Due date*             three, then that employee/payee should not be reported 
January1toMarch                        April30               for those quarters. The fourth quarter submission requires 
April1toJune                           July31                reporting of the total gross federal wages or distribution 
July 1 to September 30                 October 31            subject to withholding and total New York State, New York 
October 1 to December 31               January 31            City, and Yonkers tax withheld for all employees/payees 
 *  When the actual due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or for all quarters during the year. If the employee/payee 
   legalholiday,New YorkState TaxLawpermitsyoutofile         did not have any gross wages covered by unemployment 
   on the next business day.                                 insurance in the fourth quarter, or if the employee is not 
                                                             covered by unemployment insurance in New York State, the 
                                                             UI remuneration paid this quarterfieldshouldbezero-filled.
Section 6 – Technical specifications
Alldatarecordsmusthaveafixedlengthof128bytes.                Employers who are liable under the Federal Unemployment 
Deviations from the prescribed format are not acceptable.    TaxAct(FUTA)mustincludeaseparateemployeerecord
                                                             for any employee receiving payments of severance pay and 
Multi-volume media are not acceptable. Data can              thefirstsixmonthsofsickpay.     Thisadditionalemployee
becompressedand/orzippedasneeded.           Aproperly        recordmustbeidentifiedbyenteringaletter     O for other 
composedfilebeginswithaCode1A      recordandendswitha        typesofwagesatposition43ofthe1Wrecord.Specific
Code 1F record.                                              details related to these types of other wages are available in 
                                                             Publication NYS-50.
Transmitters for multiple employers must use consolidated 
files,ratherthanaseparatefileforeachemployerorclientof       Allgross federal wages or distribution subject to withholding 
the transmitter. Submissions that include multiple employers and total New York State, New York City, and Yonkers 
must be sorted in ascending EIN order.                       tax withheld must be reported in the 1W employee record 
                                                             containing regular wages (that is, with the letter  Win 
Printfilesarenotacceptable.
                                                             position 43).
Data must be recorded in uppercase letters only.
File composition – Aproperlycomposedfilecontainsthe          Money amounts
following records in sequence.                               –Allmoneyfieldsarestrictlynumeric(exception:for
                                                               an amended record, enter spaces in positions 45           
Record1A       Transmitterrecord                               through 57 and an   inXposition 58 of record 1W).
Record 1E      Employer/payer record
Record 1W      Employee/payee records                        –  Include dollars and cents with the decimal point assumed.  
Record 1T      Total record                                    Donotuseanypunctuationinanymoneyfield.
Record 1F      Final record (only occurs once after all    
                                                             –Right-justifyandzero-fillallmoneyfields.
                  employer/payer records)
                                                             –Inamoneyfieldthatisnotapplicable,enterzeros.
Repeat records 1E, 1W, and 1T for each employer on the 
file.                                                        –  Negative (credit) money amounts are not acceptable.
The employer identifying number in New York State is         –High-ordersignedfieldsarenotacceptable.
primarily the federal EIN with two exceptions:
                                                             –  In general, UI remuneration paid this quarter must       
–  temporary nine-character numbers beginning with TF are      includewagesthataresubjecttoLaborLaw          Article18.
  used until the federal EIN is assigned; and                  These wages are the basis for claims for unemployment  
–decentralizedemployersmayapplyforalocationsuffixto            insurancebenefitsinNew    YorkState.
  their federal EIN.
                                                             –  In general, gross federal wages subject to withholding is  
Wage reports–   Beginning with tax year 2019, if the           the amount of wages that are subject to withholding tax.
employee/payee does not have any gross wages covered 
by unemployment insurance in New York State, gross            Total tax withheld is the sum of taxes withheld for      
federal wages or distribution subject to withholding, and      New York State, New York City, and the city of Yonkers.
New York State, New York City, and Yonkers tax withheld in   Employee/payee name formats – Left-justify the name, 
the calendar quarter you are reporting, the employee/payee   inuppercaseonly,andlistthelastnamefirst.Separateall
should not be reported.                                      segments of the name, including each initial, by blanks.
If the employee/payee did not have any gross wages           Connect parts of a compound surname by a hyphen. 
covered by unemployment insurance or if the employee         Donotuseablanktoseparatesingleletterprefixes
is not covered by unemployment insurance in New York         (such as  Oor  D) from the rest of the surname; they may be 
State in the quarter you are reporting, the UI remuneration 



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separated by an apostrophe or be contiguous with the rest of 
the name. Do not use commas to separate names. Connect 
lastnamesuffixes(suchasJr,Sr   , or MD) to the last name 
with a hyphen.

Section 7 – File formats
Record 1A     Transmitter record                         Length = 128 bytes
Location      Field                                        Length          Description and remarks
1-2           Record identifier                               2            Constant 1A
3-8           Upload creation date                              6 MMDDYY
9-19          Transmitter's identification number             11           Transmitter'sfederalEINorNYStaxidentificationnumber;
                                                                            left-justifyandfillwithblanks;nohyphensorspacesnnumber
 20-59        Transmitter's name                              40           Organizationtransmittingthefile;left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 60-89        Street address                                  30           Street address of transmitter
 90-114       City                                                Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 115-116      State 2                                                      Use standard FIPS postal abbreviation
 117-125      ZIP code                                                   Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 126-128      Blanks                                          3            Enter blanks

 Record 1E    Employer/payer record                      Length = 128 bytes
 Location     Field                                        Length          Description and remarks
1-2           Record identifier                               2            Constant 1E
3-6           Quarter being reported                            4          MMYY; enter the last month of the quarter being reported
                                                                             (e.g., 0321, 0621, 0921, 1221, etc.)
7-17          Employer's identification number                11           Employer'sfederalEINorNYStaxidentificationnumber;
                                                                            left-justifyandfillwithblanks;nohyphensorspacesinnumber
 18           Blank                                           1            Enter blank
 19-58        Employer/payee name                                 Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 59           Blank                                           1            Enter blank
 60-89        Street address                                      Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 90-114       City                                                Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 115-116      State 2                                                      Use standard FIPS postal abbreviation
 117-125      ZIP code                                                   Left-justifyandfillwithblanks
 126          Blank                                           1            Enter blank
 127          Type of return                                    1 Letter - OriginalO 
                                                                           Letter A -Amended
  128          Seasonal employer indicator                      1 Enter  if the employerSdoes not anticipate activity during  
                                                                              part of the year. Otherwise, leave blank.

  Record 1W    Employee/payee record                     Length = 128 bytes
  Location     Field                                       Length          Description and remarks
 1-2          Record identifier                               2            Constant 1W
3-11          Social Security number                            9          Omit hyphens
12-41         Employee's name                                     Surname,blank,firstname,blank,middleinitial,blanks;
                                                                            left-justifyandfillwithblanks;commasnotpermitted
42            Blank                                           1            Enter blank
43            Wages for unemployment insurance benefit
              computation/Other wages                           1 Letter         W -benefitwages;letterO - other wages
44            Blank                                           1            Enter blank
45-58         UI remuneration paid this quarter                   Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
59            Blank                                           1            Enter blank
60-73         Gross federal wages or distribution subject
              to withholding                                      Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
74 Blank             1                                                     Enter blank
75-88         Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld            Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
89-128 Blanks          40                                                  Enter blanks



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Section 7 – File formats (continued)
Record 1T    Total record (one Record 1T for each Record 1E) Length = 128 bytes
Location     Field                                       Length Description and remarks
1-2          Record identifier                               2  Constant 1T
3-9          Number of 1W records                            7  Enter the total number of 1W records for this 1E records, 
                                                                right-justifyandzero-fill
10-44        Blank                                           35 Enter blanks
45-58        Total UI remuneration paid this quarter            Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
59           Blank                                           1  Enter blank
60-73        Total gross federal wages or distribution          Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
             subject to withholding
74 Blank             1                                          Enter blank
75-88        Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld           Right-justify;zero-fill;dollarsandcents;implieddecimal
89-128 Blanks        40                                         Enter blanks

Record 1F    Final record                              Length = 128 bytes
Location     Field                                       Length Description and remarks
1-2          Record identifier                               2  Constant 1F
3-12         Number of 1E records                            10 Total number of 1E employer/payer records; right-justify 
                                                                andzero-fill
13-22        Number of 1W records                            10 Total number of 1W employee/payee records; right-justify  
                                                                andzero-fill
23-128 Blanks        106                                        Enter blanks



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Section 8 Correction procedures                                     The employee record with the  Xin the  UI remuneration 
Tofileamendedrecordsviauploadyoumustprovidethe                        paid this quarterfieldmustbeimmediatelyfollowedwith
previously reported employee record that is to be completely          the replacement record. This replacement record must 
replaced, followed immediately by the corresponding                   include all the data for that employee as it should have been 
replacementrecord. Thenewemployee-specificinformation                 reported including UI remuneration paid this quarter, Gross 
is a complete replacement for what was originally reported.           federal wages or distribution subject to withholding, and Total 
Only those employees that have corrections should be                  NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld.
reported. The total for the amended records is the new                The total record (1T) should include a count of the total 
information only for those employees being reported.                  numberofemployeerecordsintheamendedfile.Boththe
Allfilesmuststartwitha1A      transmitterrecordanda1E                 original (with an  Xin the UI remuneration paid this quarter 
employer record. The amended component begins with an                 field)andthereplacementrecordfortheemployeeare
employer record (1E). The employer record should indicate             counted.Thetotalsforthedollarfields    (UI remuneration paid 
the quarter/year being amended in position 3 through 6                this quarter, Gross federal wages or distribution subject to 
and include an  Aas the type of return in position 127.               withholding, and Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld) 
The quarter/year being amended is the quarter/year of the             mustincludeonlyreplacementrecordsintheamendedfile.
original submission that needs to be corrected.                       Thefinalrecord(1F)fortheuploadmustincludeacountof
The Social Security number and employee name serve                    the employer records and a count of the employee records. 
to identify which original employee record (1W) is being              The following Examples below illustrate the appropriate 
corrected. The original employee record that must be                  method for making corrections.
replacedisfirstidentifiedbyplacingan      X in position 58, 
which is the end of the UI remuneration paid this quarterfield
(positions45through58,rightjustify,blankfill).Positions60
through73and75through88(theothertwodollarfields)for
thatemployeerecordmustbezero-filled.

                                                              Examples
                                                  Originally reported records
1W records field                                                                     Error in                      Erroneous
                                                                                     UI remuneration paid          Social
                                                                                      Security 
                                                                                      number
Social Security number (3-11)                                                        111223333 555555555
Employee name (12-41)                                                                Taxpayer John Q               Taxpayer Sue Z
Wages for UI benefit computation/Other wages (43)                                       W                             O
Gross UI remuneration paid this quarter (45-58)                                      00000001603011 00000000975111
Gross federal wages or distribution subject to withholding (60-73)                   00000004642111 00000003900411
Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld (75-88)                                     00000000761211 00000000429011
                                                      Corrected information
Employee 1W records
Social                                                             Total UI          Gross federal wages           Total NYS, NYC,
Security            Employee name               Wages for UI/      remuneration      or distribution subject       and Yonkers
number                                          Other wages        paid this quarter to withholding                tax withheld
111223333           Taxpayer John Q                W                        X        00000000000000                00000000000000
111223333           Taxpayer John Q                W            00000000163011       00000006412411                00000000761211
555555555           Taxpayer Sue Z                 O                        X        00000000000000                00000000000000
123456789           Taxpayer Sue Z                 O               00000000975111    00000003900411                00000000429011
Total 1T            Number of                                      Total UI          Gross federal wages           Total NYS, NYC,
record              1W records                                     remuneration      or distribution subject       and Yonkers
                                                                   paid this quarter to withholding                tax withheld
                    0000004                                        00000001138122 00000010312822                   00000001190222
Theamendedemployeerecordsshouldreflectthefollowing:
Increase in an employee’s wages:
            Delete the original record
Record 1         Enter theSocial Security number and Employee name as originally reported, and an  Xin position 58.
                 Zero-fillGross federal wages or distribution subject to withholding and Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkerstax withheld fields.
            Create a replacement record with current data
Record 2         Enter the Social Security number and Employee name, UI remuneration paid this quarter, Gross federal wages or   
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Correction in the reporting of an employee’s Social Security number:
                Delete the original record
Record 3            Enter the Social Security number and Employee name as originally reported, and an  Xin position 58.
                  Zero-fillGross federal wages or distribution subject to withholding                            and Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld fields.
                Create a replacement record with current data
Record 4            Enter the Social Security number,Employee  name, UI remuneration paid this quarter, Gross federal wages or                                 
                    distribution subject to  withholding, and Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld.

Deletions
It is possible to delete records that were mistakenly reported       Ifthecorrection(s)affect(s)thewithholdingtaxamounts,
in a quarter. These employees/payees must have the                   employers must also complete Form NYS-45-X, Amended 
originally reported Social Security number and Employee              Quarterly Combined Withholding, Wage Reporting, and 
name, and an  Xin the UI remuneration paid this quarterfield.        Unemployment Insurance Return, to report the changes in 
                                                                     withholding amount.
Additions
                                                                     Each employer must group and report amended employee 
Toaddanemployeeontheamendedfilewhowasnot                             records by the quarter being amended. Submissions of 
reported originally, report the information as a replacement         amended records for multiple quarters by the same employer 
record. There mustnot be an original record with an  Xin the         can be included on the upload, but each quarter being 
UI remuneration paid this quarterfield.Iforiginalinformation         amended must have an employer record (1E) and a total 
wasrequiredtobefiledviaupload,thecorrectionstothat                   record (lT).
informationmustalsobefiledviaupload,unlessthereare
16 or fewer corrections. The Tax Department requests that            Do not include amended employee information on the same 
corrections for 16 or fewer employees/payees be submitted            uploadedfileasoriginalemployeeinformation.
byfilingFormNYS-45-ATT withtheAmended Return               box 
checked. (Filing federal Form W-2C will not amend your 
wage reporting.)

Section 9 – Test file format
 Record1A   ........................... Transmitter record .............................................. Complete with actual transmitter data
   Record 1E ....................... Employer/payer record ....................................... Complete with actual employer data
    Record 1W ................... Employee/payee records ................................... Provide information for 20 employees, including Social 
                                                                                                             Security number, Employee name, UI wages/Other wages, 
                                                                                                             UI remuneration paid this quarter, Gross federal wages or 
                                                                                                             distribution subject to withholding, and Total NYS, NYC, and 
                                                                                                             Yonkers tax withheld.
   Record 1T ....................... Total record ........................................................ Employer total information for the four employee records
 Record 1F ........................... Final record ........................................................ Grandtotalforfile
 Secondtestfile:
 Record1A   ........................... Transmitter record .............................................. Complete with actual transmitter record
   Record 1E ....................... Employer/payer record ....................................... Complete with actual employer data
    Record 1W ................... Employee/payee records ................................... Provide four employee amended records (see below) 
                                                                                                             including Social Security number, Employee name, 
                                                                                                             UI wages/Other wages, UI remuneration paid this quarter, 
                                                                                                             Gross federal wages or distribution subject to withholding, 
                                                                                                             and Total NYS, NYC, and Yonkers tax withheld.
   Record 1T ....................... Total record ........................................................ Employer total information for 20 employee records
 Record 1F ........................... Final record ........................................................ Grandtotalforfile






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