Year-end tax problems rarely show up out of nowhere. They often start with small setup errors, tax discrepancies that go unchecked, or wage totals that don’t add up. These four Avionté reports help payroll and tax teams catch those issues early, while there’s still time to fix them before filing season.
Here’s a quiet truth about payroll: nobody celebrates a clean W-2 season. No one sends a thank-you note because every box matched, and every filing went out on time. The only year-end stories people remember are the ones that went sideways.
That’s the goal: a year-end that is so smooth, it’s forgettable. And getting there doesn’t take heroics in January. It takes a few well-timed checks now, while there’s still time to find and fix problems before they get bigger.
A transaction type mapped incorrectly. A tax discrepancy no one investigated. Wage amounts that don’t reconcile as expected. Each might seem minor on its own. But left unchecked, these issues can mean hours of research, employee questions, and last-minute corrections during the busiest stretch of the year.
The good news? Many year-end reporting issues can be caught before filing season begins. Avionté’s fully integrated front- and back-office platform gives payroll and tax teams access to reports that help identify discrepancies, validate data, and support reconciliation well ahead of W-2 deadlines.
Here are four Avionté reports worth putting on your calendar now: Transaction Type Configuration Verification AQ, Taxes Summary AQ, Get Fed W2 Details with Box Totals, and OBBB Qualified Overtime Premium 2026. Each gives your team a closer look at the data behind year-end tax reporting, helping you catch potential issues while there’s still time to address them.
Because the best W-2 season isn’t the one where your team works miracles in January. It’s the one where there’s nothing left to fix.
The Transaction Type Configuration Verification AQ report consolidates your transaction type tax settings and W-2 box mappings in one place, so you can confirm that earnings are taxed and reported as intended. Accurate year-end reporting starts with accurate system setup.
These configurations run behind the scenes on every payroll run, making them one of the most important foundations of your tax reporting. A single configuration issue can affect hundreds or thousands of transactions over the course of a year. That’s why leading payroll teams review configurations well before filing season.
Think of this report as a year-end health check for your payroll setup. Confirm your transaction types now to reduce reconciliation challenges and ensure wages and taxes are flowing to the correct year-end forms.
Why it matters: Payroll accuracy begins long before payroll processing. Reviewing transaction-type tax settings and W-2 mappings before year-end reduces the risk of reporting errors and corrections during filing season.
If year-end preparation has a cornerstone report, this is it. The Taxes Summary AQ report shows gross wages, taxable wages, subject wages, and tax amounts across your payroll activity, providing payroll and tax teams with a reliable tool for ongoing reconciliation and validation.
Don’t save it for December. Run it year-round to compare payroll activity with quarterly filings, investigate variances, and verify tax liabilities across jurisdictions. Resolve small discrepancies before they grow.
The real payoff is confidence. When tax season arrives, teams that reconciled throughout the year spend less time researching variances and more time finalizing filings.
Why it matters: Consistent tax reconciliation reduces surprises, boosts reporting confidence, and supports accurate year-end filings.
Get Fed W-2 Details with Box Totals is your final quality-control checkpoint before W-2s go out. After you generate the W-2 data, it shows employee-level details: federal wages, federal withholding, Social Security wages and taxes, Medicare wages and taxes, and applicable Box 12 and Box 14 values. It also includes summary information to help you reconcile employee-level details with company totals.
Use it to review wages, withholdings, and box-level details before forms reach employees or taxing authorities. Catching a discrepancy at this stage beats dealing with a correction request later. A little time spent reviewing upfront helps you avoid reprints, employee inquiries, and amended filings.
Why it matters: Every discrepancy you identify before W-2s are issued or filed is one fewer issue to resolve during filing season.
The OBBB Qualified Overtime Premium 2026 report presents the qualified overtime premium amounts captured during payroll processing in a single, centralized view. Year-end review isn’t only about reconciling the past. It’s also about preparing for what’s next.
Instead of digging through payroll records or validating calculations across multiple payroll runs, you can review reportable overtime premium data and verify amounts before year-end reporting begins.
New reporting requirements almost always create uncertainty. A purpose-built report within the system reduces manual effort, streamlines validation, and gives you confidence that the required data was captured correctly.
Why it matters: Reviewing qualified overtime premium amounts early helps you adapt to new reporting requirements and avoid last-minute surprises.
When your front-office operations, payroll, and back-office reporting all live in one staffing platform, your team has a clearer view of the data behind every transaction. Avionté brings those functions together, making it easier to spot discrepancies, verify the numbers, and address problems before year-end deadlines approach. Instead of spending January tracking down answers, your team can spend more time confirming that everything is where it should be.
Of course, no report catches everything. But starting early gives you more time to find and fix issues before they become bigger problems. Pick one report from this list and add it to your calendar this week. A little preparation now can save your team a lot of backtracking, employee questions, and last-minute corrections in January.
The goal? A W-2 season that is so uneventful that nobody remembers it. That’s a pretty good outcome for payroll.
If you need a hand getting started, request a demo to learn more about back-office reporting or reach out to your Avionté team. We’ll walk you through the reports and help you make them part of your year-end routine.
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