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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. Medicare tax on wages exceeding certain thresholds.)

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Payroll Tax News Updates: April 2024

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Tax Blotter 042224 Under the trust fund recovery penalty (TFRP), a “responsible person” may be held personally liable for the full amount of an employer’s unpaid employment taxes. Although he wasn’t involved with payroll, he had check-signing authority over one bank account used solely to buy parts for the business.

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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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How SUI and State Income Taxes Affect Small Businesses

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Inevitably, your clients with growing businesses will want to hire, so you’ll be better able to help them if you have a clear understanding of the differences between SUI (state unemployment insurance) and SIT (state income tax) and how they affect your clients’ businesses. What is SUI Tax? The federal tax rate is a flat 6%.

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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. 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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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. 116-136, Sec.

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Payroll trends to watch in 2022 (Part 2)

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Typically, when an employer needs to terminate an employment relationship with workers, the employer’s unemployment tax rate for the following year may increase. If a state does not repay these loans within around two years, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax credit for employers in those states is reduced.

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