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

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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. Filing tax returns and remitting payments on time.

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Last Week in Payroll: Backup Withholding

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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. The IRS’s most recent estimate of the tax gap was $441 billion. Form 1099-NEC took effect for the 2020 tax year.

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

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The IRS has posted a June 2021 draft version of the Form 941 , Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, instructions that take into account the amended and expanded coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic tax credits and the new COBRA premium assistance credit from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Significant tax bill passed.

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Last Week in Payroll: Minimum Wage

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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. This includes withholding taxes.

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

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Top Remote Accounting Candidates: February 22, 2024 Law & Order Co-Owner of Media Brokerage Firm Sentenced for Filing False Tax Returns [ Department of Justice ] According to court documents and statements made in court, Susan K. From 2012 to April 2018, according to the criminal information document signed by U.S.

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