Whenever employment tax specialist Mindy Mayo offers her latest webinar on expense reimbursements, we can expect a lively Q&A session, as the gray areas in the...
Employees don’t understand their W-2s. They never will. So, to avoid the annual onslaught of questions regarding their forms, a good idea is to prepare FAQs for...
Contact the Social Security Administration’s Employer Service Liaison Officers with questions about e-filing or submitting paper Copy A to the SSA. This chart...
Congress has passed two amendments to H.R. 2029—the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, or PATH Act, which is the tax extenders bill, and an omnibus...
Stolen identity refund fraud—SIRF for short—works when identity thieves e-file phony federal and state 1040s and claim bogus refunds long before the IRS and...
The IRS has released the 2016 Notice 1036, which contains the official 2016 withholding allowance amounts, the amount to add to nonresident alien employees’ wages...
Currently, the IRS holds both a professional employer organization (PEO), also known as an employee leasing organization, and the client (you) responsible if your PEO...
An employer that failed to prove it filed its Forms W-2/W-3 with the Social Security Administration was, nevertheless, not liable for a tax penalty for intentionally...
Employees have only a handful more weeks to spend the money they salted away into their health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) this year. Unless your FSA plan gives...
Q: “Can the company legally assess an administrative fee to employees who have been issued a corporate credit card and have been told in writing that the card is...
The closest office managers usually get to Payroll are their own paychecks. But beware. A federal trial court has ruled that an office manager was personally liable...
The Social Security Administration has announced that the 2016 taxable wage base for the Social Security portion of FICA will remain $118,500. The 6.2% Social Security...
Q: “For employees who are paid hourly in the state of Massachusetts, can we ask them to enroll in direct deposit with a bank to cut down on the company expenses,...
Cutting employees’ travel expenses without raising their ire can be like trying to buy dinner using change found in the sofa. In other words, it’s difficult....
What if there was a way you could solve your new-hire training problems, identify areas that can be improved and aid in disaster planning? According to Raeann Hofkin,...
