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

CPA Practice

As accountants and CPAs, dealing with payroll taxes is essential to managing finances for your business clients. Understanding the details of payroll taxes helps you better assist your clients in fulfilling their obligations and maximizing tax efficiency. Filing tax returns and remitting payments on time.

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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. States with tighter schedules include Illinois and New York (up to 60 days) and Virginia (up to 15 days).

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5 States with the Lowest Combined Business Taxes

CPA Practice

Property and payroll taxes In addition to business or personal income taxes and sales tax, property and payroll taxes are important considerations. Property tax rates can vary significantly, impacting the cost of owning or leasing business space.

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Federal Paid FMLA May Be Out While States Consider Possibilities

ThomsonReuters

The program would be funded by 2% payroll tax, 1% paid by the employer, 1% paid by the employee ( L. West Virginia. The post Federal Paid FMLA May Be Out While States Consider Possibilities appeared first on Tax & Accounting Blog Posts by Thomson Reuters. 2022, H447 ). . Proposed legislation ( L.

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Heads Up! Payroll Changes Coming in July

ThomsonReuters

But before we give you a state-by-state rundown on the more mundane upcoming changes, here’s one federal reminder that beginning July 1, 2021, the Employee Retention Credit is claimed against only the employer share of Medicare tax. State by State Payroll Tax Changes. West Virginia. per hour on July 1. .

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Last Week in Payroll: Will Paid Family and Medical Leave Provision in House-Passed Spending Bill Survive the Senate?

ThomsonReuters

A payroll-related provision for paid family and medical leave was in the bill initially, removed after objections and then reinserted into the House-passed bill with a lesser leave period of four weeks. Some payroll provisions. . appeared first on Tax & Accounting Blog Posts by Thomson Reuters.

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