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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. Medicare tax on wages exceeding certain thresholds.)

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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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Trendspotting: Top Ten Payroll Issues of State Legislatures

ThomsonReuters

States eye workforce as a legislative priority for payroll The majority of state legislatures began their legislative sessions this January. A flurry of bills is being proposed in the payroll space — many having to do labor and employment. One bill is proposing to put PFMLI on the ballot ( House Bill 1994 ).

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Demystifying Taxes for Startup Founders: Deadlines You Need to Know

Shay CPA

The beginning of a new calendar year means every business owner needs to put some thought into tax filings. Beyond filing for your own company, you also have fast-approaching responsibilities pertaining to your employee’s taxes and their ability to file. A big change went into effect for your contractors for the 2023 tax year.

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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

CPA Practice

Incorporating at the End of the Year The primary advantage of incorporating before the end of the year is your clients can then take advantage of the tax benefits owning a corporation offers, including writing off the costs of incorporating on this year’s taxes.

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

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The guidance is aimed at helping multi-state employers determine to which state wages should be reported and unemployment taxes paid. Being familiar with the DOL’s “localization of work” provisions may be helpful to employers that want to make sure wages are reported and unemployment taxes are paid to the correct state.

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Last Week in Payroll: Backup Withholding

ThomsonReuters

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. Beginning in tax year 2020, the IRS issued a new Form 1099-NEC for business taxpayers who receive nonemployee. Federal News.

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