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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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Ultra-Rich Should Pay More Taxes to Save Social Security, Poll Shows

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An overwhelming 77% of registered voters in the seven states that will decide the 2024 presidential election like the idea of a billionaires tax to bolster Social Security shortfalls, the poll found. Around one-fourth of poll respondents supported those policies, while about a third support increasing payroll taxes.

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An Employer’s Guide to Multi-State Payroll Tax Withholding for Remote Workers

Anders CPA

Remote workers have become a staple of the workplace, but hiring out-of-state employees can lead to payroll tax complications. Multi-state payroll tax withholding done incorrectly can lead to penalties and interest for employers and create tax headaches for employees.

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Payroll Taxes for an Employer: How Is Payroll Tax Calculated?

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Payroll taxes can be daunting for employers to calculate and pay. With the numerous tax laws, regulations and compliance requirements, employers are required to be up-to-date on the latest regulations to ensure they’re making accurate and timely payroll tax payments. It is not intended to provide any tax advice.

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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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The latest on a national sales tax

TaxConnex

Everything old is new again – and that goes for ideas of a national sales tax. 25 of the 118th Congress, the GOP’s “Fair Tax Act of 2023,” is the latest attempt. The embattled bill, now in committee, was introduced early this year to replace the federal income tax. What’s in the bill? Is the idea bad? The bill won’t pass.

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The Certified Payroll Professional Corner: Fringe Benefits

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We attended American Payroll Association’s (APA) annual Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s a nice feeling to share, learn, and, yes, sometimes commiserate, over all things payroll. More information on employment taxes, the lookback period, and deposit schedules can be found in Payroll Guide ¶4285.

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