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.

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Symmetry Payroll Point is the technology leader in local tax determination.

How Symmetry Payroll Point^® Works

Accurate local taxes and wage rates

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.

Payroll Point accurately calculates complex multi-state taxes

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.

Increases payroll tax compliance with Payroll Point by Symmetry.

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
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"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.

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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 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.

API integration
Perfect for companies looking to integrate tax data directly into their own payroll system. Post addresses and get local tax results via JSON integration.
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Portal
Designed for payroll, tax, and HR professionals to quickly identify local tax information for employees via an interface.
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Tax API integration

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.

"taxResults": [
    {
        "uniqueTaxID": "34-000-0000-ER_SDI-001",
        "description": "New Jersey Employer SDI",
        "rate": 0.005,
        "rateType": "RATE_PERCENT",
        "wageBase": 42300.0,
        "taxLimit": 211.5,
        "taxLimitPeriod": "Annually",
        "taxStartDate": "2024-01-01",
        "credit": 0.0,
        "creditLimit": 0.0,
        "paid": false,
        "stateWide": false,
        "stateName": "New Jersey",
        "employerTax": true,
        "resident": true
    },
    ...
]

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.

Payroll Point user portal provides an interface to manage different tax scenarios for work and home addresses.

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.

Run a quick tax lookup with an employee’s home and work addresses in Payroll Point Maps feature.

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.

Use Payroll Point Batch to process large numbers of tax lookups quickly and efficiently.

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.

Create customized reports with the Payroll Point template builder.

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.

Read our guide to geocoding

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Local tax withholding rates - accurate with Symmetry Payroll Point^®

Accurate local taxes and wage rates

1Address

2Geocoding

3Shapefiles

4Local Tax Rates

Advanced mapping technology

Accurate multi-state localized taxes

Increase your tax compliance

Who will love it?

Integrates seamlessly

API integration