It sounds like a joke, but it’s not: What do you get when you throw two corporate income tax rates into a blender? The answer, according to recent IRS guidance, is the...
Under the Affordable Care Act’s federal poverty line safe harbor, group health benefits are affordable during the 2019 plan year if employees don’t pay more than...
On second thought, no. Ever since the IRS’ midyear reduction to the maximum health savings account contribution, to $6,850, from $6,900, employees, employers and HSA...
Final regulations now allow the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to accept transfers made by terminating 401(k) plans if you can’t find former employees, but need...
It’s no secret that employees use their phones, tablets and other electronic devices to perform work after hours. That creates all sorts of problems with employee...
The deductibility of costs incurred for company events, such as a Christmas party, is covered under tax code Sections 274(e)(1) and (e)(4), which the Tax Cuts and Jobs...
Before spring fever sets in for real, why not clean up your payroll records? Careful: Be judicious in your culling; the IRS requires you to keep payroll records for at...
I don’t know about you, but I try to never leave free money on the table. But about one million taxpayers who don’t file their 2014 1040s by April 17, 2018, will be...
It’s safe to say that company policy isn’t made in the Payroll Department. But the new tax credit for paid FMLA leave, enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,...
As if being liable for retaliating against an employee for filing discrimination charges wasn’t bad enough, a federal appeals court has ruled that an employer must...
Two of our favorite words: Play ball! Now that the baseball season has officially begun, instead of pondering the infield fly rule, whether real-time review of...
The short-term government spending bill, signed Feb. 9, picks up some 401(k) provisions that were stripped from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and provides more disaster...
The IRS has now concluded that fixed indemnity plan benefits are fully taxable if the average amount employees receive predictably exceeds their after-tax contributions.
Strike while the iron is hot. The IRS is declaring this week—as most taxpayers have finished their 2017 taxes and before the April 17 tax deadline—Paycheck Checkup...
