Symmetry Payroll Point^®

The technology leader in local tax determination.

Introducing a NEW scalable and flexible API. See what’s new

The enhancements to Symmetry Payroll Point include a new RESTful-API service, an optimized Portal experience, and an expanded product offering for Minimum Wage data.

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How it works

Increase accuracy for taxation and wage rates.

Symmetry Payroll Point returns precise replies 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 up-to-date tax accuracy from the local tax API.

Address
Enter the home address and the work address into Symmetry Payroll Point. You can also search by latitude and longitude coordinates.
Geocoding
Symmetry Payroll Point validates both addresses using true geocoding technology and determines latitude and longitude coordinates of the locations.
Shapefiles
Symmetry Payroll Point applies the coordinates to 35,000 geospatial tax boundary shapefiles issued by the U.S. Census Bureau and state tax jurisdictions as well as Symmetry’s proprietary shapefiles.
Taxes
Symmetry Payroll Point calls the Symmetry Tax Engine to retrieve values and return all applicable federal, state, local, and employer taxes and rates.

Symmetry Payroll Point made

over 27 million tax look-ups in 2020 alone.

Features

Accurate multi-state 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.

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.

Increased compliance.

Increases payroll tax compliance while reducing notices, inquiries, incorrect taxation, W‑2cs, and inaccurate wages. Maps locations and displays accurate values for addresses.

Customized reporting.

Customize the display of results to your specifications. Select from over two dozen fields to be included in reports such as geocoding results, tax information, and location information. Payroll tax information such as taxing authority, rate, effective date, and wage type are also included.

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.
Carol Egloff, Payroll Manager

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Technical Info

Integrates seamlessly.

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 unique business needs. With the API and Portal, you get the same accurate 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.

API
Embedded Directly
Ideal for companies looking to integrate tax data directly into their own payroll system or product via JSON. It posts addresses and returns jurisdictional results.
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Portal
Maps + Batch
Ideal for payroll, tax, and human resources professionals needing to identify local tax information for employees.
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API

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.

How API works:

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.

* The API is a technically driven experience. Payroll departments would have to work in tandem with developers to enable this solution.

"taxResults": [
    {
        "uniqueTaxID": "34-000-0000-ER_SDI-001",
        "description": "New Jersey Employer SDI",
        "rate": 0.005,
        "rateType": "RATE_PERCENT",
        "wageBase": 36200.0,
        "taxLimit": 181.0,
        "taxLimitPeriod": "Annually",
        "taxStartDate": "2021-01-01",
        "credit": 0.0,
        "creditLimit": 0.0,
        "paid": false,
        "stateWide": false,
        "stateCode": "34",
        "stateName": "New Jersey",
        "employerTax": true,
        "resident": true
    },
    ...
]

Portal

A modern and powerful user interface to return precise taxes using the 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.

The Maps interface identifies tax jurisdictions with geospatial visualizations, making it quicker to research complex taxing scenarios.

How Maps works:

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.

The Batch processing is streamlined for easier upload, review, and export of tax results.

How Batch works:

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.
Customize templates to download results with your preferred fields, such as effective date, rate, and taxing authority.

Payroll Point batch is saving us 10 hours a week.
Patricia Clapp, Payroll & Employee Services Manager

Geocoding

Why geocoding is so important when it comes to 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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FAQ

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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 customer.
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.

Symmetry Payroll Point^®

The technology leader in local tax determination.

Increase accuracy for taxation and wage rates.

Address

Geocoding

Shapefiles

Taxes