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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. for paying state unemployment tax. By Nellie Akalp.

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New Washington State Payroll Tax Targets Long-Term Care Expenses

CPA Practice

The state’s Supreme Court recently upheld a controversial capital gains tax , which has been re-challenged in court and could be on the state’s ballot in November for potential repeal. Will other states, like California, implement similar initiatives involving payroll tax deductions? of your adjusted gross income.

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House Bill Proposes to End Social Security Tax for Retirees

CPA Practice

The You Earned It, You Keep It Act is referred to as a “win-win” by its sponsor, Minnesota Rep. It’s a tax cut for seniors and a way to ensure more Americans can depend on the Social Security benefits they’ve earned,” Rep. As Kiplinger reported, the Social Security tax wage base jumped 5.2% Angie Craig (D-Minn.).

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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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The DOL also has a list of potential FUTA credit reduction states for tax year 2022, which includes California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. This comes to an additional $21 in FUTA tax per employee to the $7,000 annual taxable wage base.

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Heads Up! Payroll Changes Coming in July

ThomsonReuters

But before we give you a state-by-state rundown on the more mundane upcoming changes, here’s one federal reminder that beginning July 1, 2021, the Employee Retention Credit is claimed against only the employer share of Medicare tax. State by State Payroll Tax Changes. per hour for large businesses (more than 100 employees).

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2023 in review: The year in sales tax

TaxConnex

Added another critic, in August, “Next week’s installment of Connecticut’s annual suspension of sales taxes on clothing and shoes may be a reminder that government is very good at bribing people with their own money.” National sales tax H.R.25 The instantly embattled bill seeks a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the U.S.

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