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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. High-income earners may be subject to an additional 0.9%

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An Employer’s Guide to Multi-State Payroll Tax Withholding for Remote Workers

Anders CPA

Remote workers have become a staple of the workplace, but hiring out-of-state employees can lead to payroll tax complications. Multi-state payroll tax withholding done incorrectly can lead to penalties and interest for employers and create tax headaches for employees.

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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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State-by-state reciprocity agreements

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How to manage state and local tax Do you have clients who live in one state but work in another state? If so, they may be able to lower income taxes through a state-by-state reciprocity agreement, should the agreement exist. Bilateral vs. unilateral agreements Do state reciprocity agreements apply to remote workers?

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Midwest and Mountain West Saw Biggest Income Gains Over Last 4 Years

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Bureau of Economic Analysis figures compiled for Stateline by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Some of the highest-income areas in the country, including Connecticut and the District of Columbia, were in the bottom 10 for income growth. The knocks to personal incomes affected state revenues.

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Last Week in Payroll: Payroll in a Pandemic

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The first recorded use of the word “payroll” appeared around 1740 A.D. Over time, payroll has become much more than just paying wages to employees. It also has to do with a wide variety of topics such as reporting and paying taxes and keeping in compliance with laws. Payroll in a Pandemic.

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Legal analysis: Implications of state tax exclusion of overtime wages for employers and employees

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Checkpoint Payroll Update caught up with John Wertz, tax attorney and partner at Holland & Knight’s New York office, to discuss this first-of-its-kind law. Wertz, a veteran in state and local taxes for over 30 years, explained that the law applies only to full-time hourly employees.