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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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How SUI and State Income Taxes Affect Small Businesses

CPA Practice

Inevitably, your clients with growing businesses will want to hire, so you’ll be better able to help them if you have a clear understanding of the differences between SUI (state unemployment insurance) and SIT (state income tax) and how they affect your clients’ businesses. What is SUI Tax? The federal tax rate is a flat 6%.

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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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Proposed Payroll Tax Cuts Could Make Paychecks Larger

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If the coming pandemic relief package does not come with a payroll tax cut, President Trump has indicated this week that he will not sign the legislation. Tax Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Garrett Watson said per the report, “Both sides have said it’s not well-targeted.”

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Next Economic Stimulus Package Could Hit $1T

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Trump and advisors floated a number of possibilities, including an infrastructure package, along with a payroll tax cut, tax deductions for companies’ workers’ restaurant and entertainment expenses, and maybe more. And recent analyses have the economy taking until 2030 to start fully recovering.

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Stimulus Package May Be Unveiled Next Week

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is expected to present lawmakers with a draft of stimulus legislation authored by Republicans, with input from the White House, the news outlet reported. More relief could be on the way for Americans hurting from the economic impacts of COVID-19.

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