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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. 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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Payroll Tax News Updates: April 2024

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Although he wasn’t involved with payroll, he had check-signing authority over one bank account used solely to buy parts for the business. But the manager wasn’t aware of the company’s failure to pay employment taxes on time. 20-1656, W.D.

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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

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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. She is the CEO of CorpNet , the most innovative way to start a business, register for payroll taxes, and maintain business compliance across the United States.

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How SUI and State Income Taxes Affect Small Businesses

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Finally, SUI tax rates tend to change from calendar year to calendar year and can rise or fall depending on the economy and the state’s unemployment fund status. Some states require employers to pay additional payroll taxes. In Kentucky, employers are required to withhold an Occupational Tax from employees’ wages.

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Top 20 Searches of 2021 on Payroll on Checkpoint

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The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (PL 116-260, Sec. 207) amended the ERC, allowing it to be claimed from January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021 and increased the refundable payroll tax credit $7,000 per employee for each quarter of 2021. . COVID tax credits and paid leave. 117-2, Sec.

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10 Ways to Help Gen X Clients Prepare for Retirement

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Add the retirement conversation to your advisory agenda : Often, clients don’t know what to expect from their accountant or an advisory relationship. Advise your client throughout the year on strategies such as estimated tax payments, early withdrawals from retirement accounts, and the max income limits to qualify to contribute to a Roth IRA.