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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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Sovos Acquires Aatrix Software, Expanding Solution and Service Capabilities for SMBs

CPA Practice

Global compliance technology solutions and services provider Sovos has acquired North Dakota-based Aatrix Software, a provider of payroll tax forms, extending its offerings in compliance with enhanced capabilities across e-filing for 1099 and ACA 1095 reporting and W2/payroll reporting – increasing its local, state and federal coverage.

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This Shady Chattanooga Accounting Firm Just Went Down in Flames and Still Owes Staff Months of Pay

Going Concern

Chattanooga Times Free Press has written quite the story about legacy accounting firm Croft & Frost abruptly laying everyone off earlier this week after months of issues making payroll. “There may be a slight delay on the payroll,” he said. Thanks to the tipsters who sent this over because holy s**t.

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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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Employer Vaccine Mandates, Worker Refusals, and Unemployment Benefits

ThomsonReuters

A spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Employment Security has informed Thomson Reuters that individuals who are fired or quit their jobs because they refuse to follow their employer’s vaccine requirement should not expect to receive unemployment benefits. North Dakota.