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Number of Small Business Jobs Increased in June

CPA Practice

Agriculture, natural resources, and mining business was also a growth area, adding about 1,110 jobs; a monthly growth rate of 0.58%. Agriculture includes farming, forestry, fishing, and hunting. The region with the highest growth (0.62%) was the Plains (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas.)

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Last Week in Payroll: Backup Withholding

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Now let’s take a look at some of the more important payroll stories from the past week. The IRS has issued a draft version of Form 943, Employer’s Annual Federal Tax Return for Agricultural Employees and Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld Federal Income Tax. The IRS’s most recent estimate of the tax gap was $441 billion. Federal News.

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

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The H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker program is designed to serve U.S. workers to perform non-agricultural work of a temporary nature. The Iowa legislature passed a significant tax bill modifying the state’s income tax laws. businesses unable to find a sufficient number of qualified U.S. Significant tax bill passed.

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