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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. By Nellie Akalp. for both employees and employers.

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An Employer’s Guide to Multi-State Payroll Tax Withholding for Remote Workers

Anders CPA

Remote workers have become a staple of the workplace, but hiring out-of-state employees can lead to payroll tax complications. Multi-state payroll tax withholding done incorrectly can lead to penalties and interest for employers and create tax headaches for employees.

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Payroll Taxes for an Employer: How Is Payroll Tax Calculated?

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Payroll taxes can be daunting for employers to calculate and pay. With the numerous tax laws, regulations and compliance requirements, employers are required to be up-to-date on the latest regulations to ensure they’re making accurate and timely payroll tax payments. It is not intended to provide any tax advice.

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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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Payroll trends to watch in 2022 (Part 2)

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Part 2 of this blogpost explains how prevalent payroll is in our daily lives with a focus on key issues in 2022, including unemployment, disaster relief, paid sick leave, and international. The 2022 tax year version may include more states if the loans are not repaid. The guide also contains information on FUTA taxes.

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How to Set Up Online Payroll for Your Small Business

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Doing payroll may not be your favorite part of running a business. If you haven’t yet, the first step is to learn how to set up payroll. Not only do you have to calculate wages, but you must also account for employment taxes—income, Social Security and Medicare. How to Set Up Payroll. Identify Contractors and Employees.

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Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes

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Shortly thereafter, colonists raised the issue of taxation without representation in protest and within a year’s time the British government repealed the Stamp Act tax. So, why the brief history lesson on American Colony taxes? To illustrate the point that there are a lot of taxes to keep up with, even back in Colonial times.

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