December 26, 2017

The IRS is working to develop withholding guidance to implement the tax reform bill signed into law on December 22.  We anticipate issuing the initial withholding guidance in January, and employers and payroll service providers will be encouraged to implement the changes in February. The IRS emphasizes this information will be designed to work with the existing Forms W-4 that employees have already filed, and no further action by taxpayers is needed at this time. 
 
Use of the new 2018 withholding guidelines will allow taxpayers to begin seeing the changes in their paychecks as early as February.  In the meantime, employers and payroll service providers should continue to use the existing 2017 withholding tables and systems.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-statement-withholding-for-2018

The AGRIS 17.1.0 release has added:

2017 Federal Tax Withholding Tables - Payroll Tax tables updated to support Payroll Auto update Tax Table feature within AGRIS (AGS-611)

Updates were made to the Federal Tax Withholding tables in compliance with 2017 tax table changes. The changes are available from the Payroll FTP site or within this service pack release.

2016 changes for W-2 standard forms (AGS-604)

This release contains an updated W-2 graphic form for 2016 tax year for easy regulatory reporting.  The Staples® W-2 Form Set (6-part--#2327460) is the tested and supported graphic form by default.

Payroll Processing - 2016 W-2 Form - Update graphic form without Background to be 2 per page and change description (AGS-606)

This release introduces a two per page graphic W-2 form in addition to the standard one per page form.