adding a taxable benefit after the fact

I have a client who for the first half of the year took a salary so I processed them through the payroll system.     He switched over part way through to draws (which will be dividends).    I've just received the year end adjustments from his accountant (yr end is Mar 31).  He made a note in the management letter to add a taxable benefit to his 2018 T4 to account for the low interest loan taxable benefit.  There were no adjusting entries related to this.   How should I be processing this?   Should I do it through the payroll module and put the amount under benefits in the right hand side box?   I read something similar on another post that then said I need to adjust the income taxes calculated to out the net payroll to zero (CPP is calculated).  This results in having to put in a negative inc tax amount that matches the CPP deduction calculated.    Is that all I need to do?   Never encountered this situation before so wanted to confirm before I proceed.

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    Can anyone help on this?  I need to be filing T4's soon but I need to figure out how to post the taxable benefit without any income thru the payroll module.  As mentioned I tried but am getting an error telling me to enter an amount but there is no salary to enter or taxes to deduct, I just need to be able to record the taxable benefit amount in order to include it on his T4.

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    I have a similar situation with a taxable benefit for a vehicle but no salary. The only way I found to process this T4 is to pay them $0.01 as salary. Yes, this produces a 'cheque/payment' for the penny, but as we all know in Canada we can round down the penny so I write it off when in the bank reconciliation later.

    There must be a payment on a payroll posting otherwise no posting.

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    I have a similar situation with a taxable benefit for a vehicle but no salary. The only way I found to process this T4 is to pay them $0.01 as salary. Yes, this produces a 'cheque/payment' for the penny, but as we all know in Canada we can round down the penny so I write it off when in the bank reconciliation later.

    There must be a payment on a payroll posting otherwise no posting.

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