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I was really excited for a colleague who got a big contract that was going to expand his company this year. He was excited because his small business would no longer be just a local business, but would now be a business that worked nation-wide. We celebrated with a congratulatory lunch. It wasn’t but a couple of weeks later that he called and was obviously down. I was afraid he’d lost the deal. But no, he said it was worse – it was about payroll taxes. (more…)
You never know when new legislation might be passed, turning your small business’s life upside down. Just when you think you have things figured out and your business is on the right track, the government can decide that you need to change the way you operate. Small business owners in New York are currently facing a scenario in which proposed legislation threatens to change the way they will be allowed to pay their employees. (more…)
As an employer, whether you are a big or small business, you have the responsibility to hire employees who are authorized to work in the United States. One of the ways many employers ensure workers are legally able to work is by getting employees’ social security number. Easy, right? Well, not so much. Let me tell you a story from the offices of The Payroll Department. (more…)
Most small business owners know that they need to distribute their business’s 2014 W-2 forms to their employees before the end of January. But did you know that you also need to supply other year-end employee notices, too?
Annually, you should review all requirements concerning Federal and state employee notification reports, especially those containing supplemental tax information for your employees. You should prepare and distribute any mandatory reports to your employees to help them fulfill their personal tax filing obligations. Some mandatory notices that you’re required to provide to your employees include:
Besides mandatory employee notifications, you also should consider processing and distributing other reports that may be helpful to your employees in completing their taxes as well.
If you need help identifying all of the mandatory and optional employee notifications your small business should make, contact The Payroll Department at 317-852-2568. By engaging the services of a professional payroll services provider, we’re your experts in all things concerning your payroll.
– Ariane of The Payroll Department Blog Team
The IRS recently published data saying they handed out 6.8 million fines to U.S. employers as of the end of September, 2013, because of botched payroll taxes. According to an article in The New Entrepreneur, these penalties amounted to $4.5 billion that employers owed the government. (more…)
Have you experienced a confidential moment with an employee as he tearfully shares that his wife was recently diagnosed with cancer? And that he absolutely must take time off work to drive his wife to doctor appointments and chemotherapy treatments? That moment is terrible, isn’t it? (more…)
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