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

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Compliance and Reporting Ensuring compliance with payroll tax regulations involves timely and accurate reporting to various tax authorities. As an accountant or CPA, you play a vital role in: Calculating and withholding taxes correctly. Filing tax returns and remitting payments on time.

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Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes

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Recent Arkansas legislation says that benefits will not be charged against the unemployment tax account of an employer starting with the week ending April 4, 2020 if the benefits paid are a direct result of the Arkansas Governor declaring a disaster emergency or a disaster resulting in a state or federal disaster declaration.

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

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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. Shareholders still must file their personal income tax returns and report the corporate dividends and capital gains they get as part of their taxable income.

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2022 Year-End Tax Planning Checklist

Withum

For example, common states where people move to reduce state taxes are Florida, Texas, Wyoming, and Nevada. Consider increasing the amount you set aside for next year in your employer’s health flexible spending account (FSA). To qualify as a small business, a taxpayer must, among other things, satisfy a gross receipts test.

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Sales and Use Tax Updates from February

TaxConnex

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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