Three federal agencies—the IRS, the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services—hold sway over group health plans. Each agency has...
Tax auditors generate lots of paper and electronic files during audits. You can use those resources to your advantage during post-audit penalty negotiations with an IRS...
Some, but not all of your Forms 1099-MISC, must be provided to payees and filed with the IRS by Jan. 31, 2017—28 days from now. Your goal: to file all of your...
For Payroll, next month will put meaning to the phrase “stupid busy.” So, to avoid the annual onslaught of questions from employees about their W-2s, you...
The Social Security Administration has announced that the taxable wage base for the Social Security portion of FICA will increase to $128,700 in 2018. The amount...
The Social Security Administration has announced that the 2017 taxable wage base for the Social Security portion of FICA increases to $127,200. That’s a 7.34%...
The IRS has taken the boredom out of the last, torrid days of summer 2016 by releasing its annual priority guidance plan—its business plan, in tax lingo—for...
The IRS has released a draft of the 2017 Form 941, which, on revised Lines 11 and 12, reflects the new research and development tax credit for small start-up...
The overall goal of an internal controls program is to prevent someone from subverting the pay/withholding/depositing/reporting process. In other words—committing...