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Last Week in Payroll: Backup Withholding

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BWH’s purpose is to make sure the federal government is able to collect tax on all appropriate income, particularly income not usually subject to withholding. Now let’s take a look at some of the more important payroll stories from the past week. 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 IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division will conduct a webinar on June 24 titled: “Reporting Election Workers Earnings”. Election workers are individuals hired by government entities to perform services at polling places in connection with national, state, and local elections. Significant tax bill passed.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Says Stop ERC Fearmongering; Deloitte Cussed Out For ‘Grueling Culture’; Worst Books Ever | 2.23.24

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Attorney Damian Williams, George Sanossian agreed to conceal clients’ personal incomes and the wages they paid their employees, to reduce federal income taxes and payroll taxes. From 2012 to April 2018, according to the criminal information document signed by U.S. Illinois, where four of the last ten governors have gone to prison.

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Friday Footnotes: Screw the Office; Auditor Sues EY For Doing Her Job; IRS Levels Up | 9.16.22

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Juniors and seniors in high school and college students will be able to hear from current professionals, as well as potential employers in government, industry, the financial services industry, and public accounting. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) informed her colleagues and taxpayers in Iowa and across the country that the U.S.

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Think Tank Analysis Finds Current Federal Minimum Wage Rate at Lowest Value in 66 Years

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per hour effective July 24, 2009 (see Payroll Guide ¶18,200 ). See Payroll Guide ¶19,010 for a list of the current state minimum wage rates and further wage and hour information. per hour), Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

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Employer Vaccine Mandates, Worker Refusals, and Unemployment Benefits

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Similarly, a public employee who works in a public setting and is subject to a local government mandate to submit proof of vaccination or negative testing may be disqualified from the receipt of UI if they refuse to get vaccinated or tested. Effective October 29, 2021, legislation ( L. West Virginia.