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Employer Payroll Tax Obligations When Employees Work Out-Of-State

Anders CPA

This changing employment landscape requires employers to reassess their payroll tax withholding processes to ensure you are withholding the proper amount of state, local and unemployment taxes from your employees’ wages. Below we dive into the state and unemployment tax responsibilities employers need to know.

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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

CPA Practice

Timing is Everything In the complex world of small business finance and accounting, the strategic timing of business filings can be a game-changer. It’s common for companies to choose an effective date of January 1 to simplify selecting a calendar year for taxes and relieve businesses of paying state franchise taxes for the prior year.

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Milestones for S Corporation Election

CPA Practice

For example, it makes sense to suggest electing S Corp status to your clients when their self-employment tax burden exceeds the tax burden if the corporation converted to an S Corp. For businesses structured as corporations, being an S Corp can help them avoid paying taxes at the corporate and shareholder levels. for Medicare.

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Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes

ThomsonReuters

Keeping Up with Taxes. The legislation levied a direct tax on the American Colonies in an effort to pay off debts and defend new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War. So, why the brief history lesson on American Colony taxes? For payroll, in particular, there are a number of taxes.

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What employers should know about voluntary unemployment contributions for rate reductions

ThomsonReuters

Department of Labor explains that unemployment insurance is a federal-state program financed through federal and state employer payroll taxes. Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) taxes are paid and reported by employers. Generally, most employers receive a FUTA credit and only pay a net tax rate of 0.6%

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Last Week in Payroll: The List and Legality of Employee Vaccination Requirements

ThomsonReuters

Louisiana. In addition, please reach out to a sales or service specialist at Thomson Reuters Checkpoint for information on how our products can help you navigate through payroll tax and non-tax topics. The Pelican State has imposed a statewide mask mandate after the Governor renewed the public health emergency.

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