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

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These taxes fund social insurance programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits. Here’s a quick breakdown of payroll taxes: Federal Income Tax Withholding : Employers must withhold federal income tax from employees’ wages based on their W-4 Forms and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines.

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Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes

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To illustrate the point that there are a lot of taxes to keep up with, even back in Colonial times. For payroll, in particular, there are a number of taxes. Then, there’s how to pay and file these taxes. Using sales tax to fund unemployment trust fund. State and Local News.

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Business Tax Rates: How Much Do Small Businesses Pay in Taxes?

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The term refers to when the IRS taxes the same income twice—once at the corporation level and again on an individual shareholder’s personal income tax. The IRS taxes corporations as separate legal entities, which opens them up to double taxation. The IRS then taxes them at the corporate income tax rate.

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2022 Year-End Tax Planning Checklist

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Most of the income tax proposals in the 2021 “Build Back Better” bill did not make it into the IRA. General Income Tax Planning. Postpone income until 2023 and accelerate deductions into 2022. For example, common states where people move to reduce state taxes are Florida, Texas, Wyoming, and Nevada.

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Sales and Use Tax Updates from February

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In one of the biggest developments, the two remaining states with a sales tax that don’t require online (or otherwise remote) businesses to collect and remit tax – Florida and Missouri – may be inching toward instituting post- Wayfair nexus requirements and sales tax obligations. Texas sales tax collections totaled $3.07

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