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2024 Payroll Tax and Withholdings Update

Anders CPA

In 2024, there are several updates to various payroll tax withholding limits, including Social Security tax and 401(k) elective deferrals. For employees, minimum wage is increasing in Missouri and Illinois. Social Security Tax Withholding For 2024, the Social Security tax wage base for employees will increase to $168,600.

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House Bill Proposes to End Social Security Tax for Retirees

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However, this isn’t the first time lawmakers have introduced legislation to end income tax on Social Security benefits. As Kiplinger reported, the Social Security tax wage base jumped 5.2% The Social Security payroll tax wage base was $160,200 last year. payroll tax on nearly $100,000 more of their wages.

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Last Week in PAYROLL

ThomsonReuters

Hello payroll professionals and welcome to the first edition of Last Week in PAYROLL. The Democrats’ budget resolution had many amendments introduced to it in the Senate on February 5, 2021, including a topic that has been on the minds of many payroll professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – teleworking.

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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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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

ThomsonReuters

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. The Missouri Department of Revenue has adopted Mo.

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Year-End State and Local Tax Planning Perspective

Withum

The Wayfair case validated economic nexus for sales tax purposes and amplified economic nexus for income tax purposes, signaling to all states that economic nexus is sound law. Although many businesses might be subject to nexus, with proper planning, income tax burdens can be alleviated or reduced with sales-sourcing analysis.

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Shrinking the Delaware Tax Loophole: Other U.S. States to Incorporate Your Business

inDinero Tax Tips

Incorporation is a critical legal matter that impacts more than your company’s tax responsibilities for doing business. To compete for business tax income with New Jersey and New York, Delaware made incorporating within its borders easier for absentee (aka out-of-state) companies and incentivized absentee companies to do so.