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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. Medicare tax on wages exceeding certain thresholds.)

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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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New AZ State Income Tax Form Requires Employer Action

Patriot Software

Arizona employers, you may know that Senate Bill 1828 substantially reduced the state’s income taxes starting with the 2022 tax year. But did you also know that it requires employer action for the 2023 tax year? You must now give all employees—not just new hires—a new AZ state income tax form.

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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

CPA Practice

Incorporating at the End of the Year The primary advantage of incorporating before the end of the year is your clients can then take advantage of the tax benefits owning a corporation offers, including writing off the costs of incorporating on this year’s taxes.

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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. Try Checkpoint Edge FREE for 7 days and get instant access to Quick Reference Charts on Paid Family and Medical Leave programs ( Payroll Guide ¶19,022 ) and State Family and Medical Leave laws ( Payroll Guide ¶20,030).

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The New Year Brings Fresh Uncertainty for U.S. Business Tax Professionals

ThomsonReuters

Business Tax Professionals. The tax rules and regulations U.S. We’re left to approach tax-filing season with a great deal of uncertainty,” said Melissa Oaks, a Thomson Reuters tax specialist who presented the webinar. 20 with an ambitious tax agenda and a singular priority. Recent Changes.

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Ultra-Rich Should Pay More Taxes to Save Social Security, Poll Shows

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An overwhelming 77% of registered voters in the seven states that will decide the 2024 presidential election like the idea of a billionaires tax to bolster Social Security shortfalls, the poll found. Around one-fourth of poll respondents supported those policies, while about a third support increasing payroll taxes.