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Payroll Taxes Demystified: A Breakdown for Accountants and CPAs Serving Business Owners

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As accountants and CPAs, dealing with payroll taxes is essential to managing finances for your business clients. As an accountant or CPA, you play a vital role in: Calculating and withholding taxes correctly. Your client will be assigned an employer tax account number for the state. and West Virginia) Washington, D.C.

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Accounting Thought Leaders Discuss the Real Impact of AI on Accounting Firms

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Over the last year, the hottest topic of discussion among accounting professionals has been about how artificial intelligence will shape professional firms. For a profession as risk averse as accounting, what can we gather from this? AI has potential to save accounting.

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State CPA Society News & Updates – Dec. 2023

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The West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (WVSCPA) is offering an Introduction to Crypto Currency and Tax Planning. The webinar is free for West Virginia Society of CPAs members, who can register here. The webinar, which will take place over Zoom, on January 24, 2024. investments and U.S.

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Sales and Use Tax Updates from March

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Tennessee finance leaders might have overpredicted COVID’s impact on the state’s revenue: February tax collections were 11% higher than the same month in 2020, just before the pandemic disrupted the economy. Online sales tax revenues have accounted for about 66.4 Additional situations are exempt from use tax.

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Legal analysis: Implications of state tax exclusion of overtime wages for employers and employees

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We asked Wertz for his thoughts on two particular proposals from Illinois and West Virginia. West Virginia. However, the West Virginia bill includes a $25 million statewide cap on the total tax exemption per year. The bill is currently under review with the House Finance Committee.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Hires Ex-Prisoners; Notes From PwC’s All-Hands; Why CPAs Are Leaving | 4.26.24

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Accountant Shortage PIPCA Survey Sheds Light on What Existing CPAs Want and Why Some are Leaving [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Accounting firm business models need to change to retain and attract CPAs amid the worst talent shortage in recent history, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) asserts in a new survey.

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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

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Timing is Everything In the complex world of small business finance and accounting, the strategic timing of business filings can be a game-changer. In addition, incorporating, of course, establishes their legal separation from the business’s liabilities sooner, which protects their personal finances from the business’s debts.