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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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Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes

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Keeping Up with Taxes. The legislation levied a direct tax on the American Colonies in an effort to pay off debts and defend new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War. So, why the brief history lesson on American Colony taxes? For payroll, in particular, there are a number of taxes.

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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

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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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Intuit Awards Three Small Businesses $20,000 Each for Small Business Hero Day

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The day is part of Small Business Success Month by Intuit, the company that makes professional and consumer financial management and tax software, including QuickBooks , TurboTax , Credit Karma , and Mailchimp. As a business owner, you have to wear a lot of different hats…I’m the owner, operations manager, I manage payroll and bookkeeping.

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Milestones for S Corporation Election

CPA Practice

For example, it makes sense to suggest electing S Corp status to your clients when their self-employment tax burden exceeds the tax burden if the corporation converted to an S Corp. For businesses structured as corporations, being an S Corp can help them avoid paying taxes at the corporate and shareholder levels. for Medicare.

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What employers should know about voluntary unemployment contributions for rate reductions

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Department of Labor explains that unemployment insurance is a federal-state program financed through federal and state employer payroll taxes. Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) taxes are paid and reported by employers. Generally, most employers receive a FUTA credit and only pay a net tax rate of 0.6%

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Steve Padgett’s Three Business Tax Penalties To Avoid When Possible

SkagitCountyTaxServices

With May 17th behind us (though for those in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahama — this was just another day. But before we leave taxes in the rearview, let’s address an unfortunate reality: as a business owner, you have a greater number of tax reporting obligations than a regular person has. Buckle up, partner.