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Payroll Taxes Demystified: A Breakdown for Accountants and CPAs Serving Business Owners

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These taxes fund social insurance programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits. Here’s a quick breakdown of payroll taxes: Federal Income Tax Withholding : Employers must withhold federal income tax from employees’ wages based on their W-4 Forms and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines.

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Shutting Down a Tech Company – Some Tax/Accounting Tips

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Specifically, you should look at: Payroll accounts, including withholding, Department of Labor, and state unemployment insurance accounts. Sales tax accounts. State franchise and income tax accounts. Washington. File away R&D tax credit and pandemic aid documentation. New Jersey.

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Understanding use tax

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Because of the level of complexity in adhering to these use tax notification requirements, many businesses simply registered for sales tax and started collecting and remitting the applicable sales tax. Two types of use tax. California state income tax return.”. Still, you ignore it at your peril.

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Five Tax Strategies Retirees Should Consider Before Dec. 31

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As in the strategy above, you may have a tax valley in your retirement years that allows you to sell some of those winners without paying taxes. Most people understand that we have different income tax brackets. Most people don’t know that we have different capital gains tax brackets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Evan T.

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These Are the Retirement Accounts You Should Withdraw From First

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Drawing from cash will also keep your taxes low in your early years of retirement. This will allow you to move money from a traditional IRA, or any pre-tax account, into a Roth IRA at a potentially lower rate than what you would pay in the future. Basically, all the accounts you have yet to pay income taxes on.

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Business Tax Rates: How Much Do Small Businesses Pay in Taxes?

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The term refers to when the IRS taxes the same income twice—once at the corporation level and again on an individual shareholder’s personal income tax. The IRS taxes corporations as separate legal entities, which opens them up to double taxation. The IRS then taxes them at the corporate income tax rate.

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State Tax Break for New Jersey Cannabis Companies

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The bill, which has been making its way through the New Jersey legislature since May 12, 2022, states, “For cannabis licensees, New Jersey gross income under subsections b. ” This section is intended to apply to all cannabis licensees in the State of New Jersey who are subject to corporate income tax.