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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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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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Demystifying Taxes for Startup Founders: Deadlines You Need to Know

Shay CPA

ASAP: Check state deadlines While a lot of states follow the IRS’s lead and require tax filings by mid-April, not all do. Usually, there’s not a ton of deviation from the IRS’s date — Iowa requires corporate income taxes by April 30, for example. You still need to pay any taxes you owe by April 15.

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

ThomsonReuters

Significant tax bill passed. The Iowa legislature passed a significant tax bill modifying the state’s income tax laws. The bill would reduce the number of tax brackets to four (currently, there are nine tax brackets) with new rates, effective beginning in 2023.

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Last Week in Payroll: Backup Withholding

ThomsonReuters

The IRS requires the payer of certain income payments to be reported on information returns (e.g., Generally, the payer does not withhold taxes from these types of payments, as it is assumed that the payee will report and pay taxes on this income when the federal income tax return is filed. Federal News.

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Last Week in Payroll: Minimum Wage

ThomsonReuters

Although it is possible to automate payroll systems to account for these minimum wage increases, it is a good idea for payroll professionals to be aware of these changes to avoid the possibility of underpaying employees. Now let’s go over some federal and state payroll stories from the past week. Federal News.

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

Going Concern

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.

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