CO W-4

Question

Colorado requires withholding tax follow the same rules as the employee has indicated for FED withholding.  SAP no longer allows building of Withholding info for CO because of this rule.
We have an employee who has FED Married 1 with an extra $10 per pay.  The CO only does the Married 1, but the employee wants the extra $10 as well. 
I know we can change the config to allow CO as an optional entry for W-4 status, but is this the best way to handle the situation?  How are other people handling this?
Thanks,
Mary

Answer 1

There are several ways of doing this. The simplest, logistically, is to search the message for paragraphs that begin with your keywords, like:
using terms from application "Mail"
  on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
    tell application "Mail"
      repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
        set newMsgText to ""
        set msgText to content of eachMessage
        repeat with eachline in (paragraphs of msgText)
          if ((eachline as text) starts with "Address:") or ((eachline as text) starts with "Street:") then
            set newMsgText to newMsgText & eachline & return
          end if
        end repeat
        if newMsgText ≠ "" then
          set newMsg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"New Message", content:newMsgText}
          tell newMsg
            make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"[email protected]"}
          end tell
        end if
      end repeat
    end tell
  end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
Note this is untested, but the theory is that you set this up as a Mail rule action. Use Mail.app's rules to identify messages that contain the data you're looking for (e.g. are from a specific address, or have a specific subject) and run them through this script.
The script grabs the text of the message body and iterates through the paragraphs looking for 'Address:' or 'Street:' lines. If it finds them it then creates a new outgoing message with that data as the message content and addresses this message to a specific address.