Process 2012 Payroll yearend after Loading 2013 Payroll Tax

Variations of this problem have been popping up everywhere, as it often does when changes are made to the payroll tax percentages and limits. I wrote this up to answer one of the forum posts, so I thought I would brush it off and publish it. Here was the scenario: The company had downloaded the 2013 payroll tax tables and processed 2013 payroll, but neither closed 2012 payroll nor installed the year end update for 2012. Now they need to close 2012 payroll and then return to processing 2013 payroll...(read more)