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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. By Nellie Akalp. for both employees and employers.

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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 Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

CPA Practice

She is the CEO of CorpNet , the most innovative way to start a business, register for payroll taxes, and maintain business compliance across the United States. Nellie Akalp is a passionate entrepreneur, recognized business expert, and mother of four.

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Top 20 Searches of 2021 on Payroll on Checkpoint

ThomsonReuters

The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (PL 116-260, Sec. 207) amended the ERC, allowing it to be claimed from January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021 and increased the refundable payroll tax credit $7,000 per employee for each quarter of 2021. . COVID tax credits and paid leave. 117-2, Sec.

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What employers should know about voluntary unemployment contributions for rate reductions

ThomsonReuters

Department of Labor explains that unemployment insurance is a federal-state program financed through federal and state employer payroll taxes. The deadline for making voluntary unemployment contributions has already passed for some states like Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and South Dakota. Virgin Islands.

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Federal Paid FMLA May Be Out While States Consider Possibilities

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The program would be funded by 2% payroll tax, 1% paid by the employer, 1% paid by the employee ( L. 2022, H447 ). . Proposed legislation ( L. 2022, H5029 ) seeks to establish a PFMLI program. Proposed legislation ( L. A bill introduced Nov. 16, 2021 ( L. The bill sought to establish a PFMLI program. .

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Heads Up! Payroll Changes Coming in July

ThomsonReuters

But before we give you a state-by-state rundown on the more mundane upcoming changes, here’s one federal reminder that beginning July 1, 2021, the Employee Retention Credit is claimed against only the employer share of Medicare tax. State by State Payroll Tax Changes. Negative reporting is not accepted. per hour. .

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