Payroll Services Mailbag: Child support orders, 401k hardships and more

• July 25, 2019

Employment tax compliance expert Alice Gilman answers your payroll questions in this roundup of Payroll Services Mailbag.

New twist in no-match letters: Employees’ privacy

• July 19, 2019

The IRS considers information in no-match letters to be confidential tax information. But might that rule be broken to inform ICEof name and SSN mismatches?

Regs, notices, announcements: What’s the difference and why it’s important

• July 09, 2019

The IRS unexpectedly shed light on its rulemaking processes. And this may influence how and when they come out with guidance on which you can rely.

Expense reimbursement 101: Time to get back to basics

• June 28, 2019

A recent survey indicates there is an increase in employees attempting to abuse their company’s expense reimbursement policy.

The IRS delivered the draft 2020 W-4 by May 31. Now what?

• June 25, 2019

While we wait for the second drafts of the W-4 and the employer instructions, we’ve been accumulating all sorts of information related to the TCJA.

The other shoe drops for 2020 withholding

• June 14, 2019

Just one week after releasing the draft W-4, it has released a draft of the employer’s instructions—new Pub. 15-T.

Draft 2020 W-4: Perhaps less horrible than the 2019 draft

• June 04, 2019

The IRS's first draft of the 2020 W-4 is here. We've looked high and low to find what's new, what's missing and how you should prepare.

Summer flexible schedules: Fun for employees, payroll headaches for you

• June 03, 2019

54% of managers recently surveyed say their companies allow flexible schedules during the summer.Can you say wage-and-hour headaches?

Taxpayers first? Well, maybe. But payroll first? No.

• May 01, 2019

Tax bills from the House usually go to the Senate to die. The Taxpayer First Act of 2019 (H.R. 1957), however, may be the exception to the rule.

Tax issues prevail at American Payroll Association’s Capitol Summit

• April 22, 2019

The IRS tipped its hand on some key payroll-related tax issues and other potential changes at this year’s APA summit. Here’s the rundown.

Tax day reminder: Deposit your payroll taxes!

• April 15, 2019

There are worse fates out there for execs and companies that don’t take their payroll tax liabilities as seriously as the IRS does.

DOL proposes to revamp regular rate calculation

• April 10, 2019

The Department of Labor has proposed regulations that would tweak the payments that can and can’t be excluded from employees’ regular rate calculations when you’re...

It’s tax time again, and this year is anything but routine

• April 02, 2019

The 2018 1040 has changed so substantially (not really for the better in our opinion) and figuring your taxes is so different that employees may be feeling more stress...

TCJA snack time: Gimme more, more, more

• March 26, 2019

Although the TCJA has been on the books for more than a year now, knotty issues are still arising. Here’s the latest.

5 things to know when you’re switching payroll service vendors

• March 26, 2019

Switching payroll service vendors should never be a spur-of-the-moment decision. There are some things you need to consider beforehand.

Back from the dead: The 2020 first draft of Form W-4 (and other TCJA tidbits)

• March 18, 2019

The IRS says the first draft of the 2020 W-4 should be ready for prime time by the end of May.

Manager’s lies are no excuse for failing to deposit payroll taxes

• March 11, 2019

Even if you assign the task to deposit payroll taxes to someone inside or outside the company, you’re still on the hook if your taxes aren’t deposited.

Payroll news from the non-tax world

• March 11, 2019

Some steps taken by the Department of Labor and a federal trial court, which rebuked the Office of Management and Budget, may impact on your payroll operations.

Income taxes: Let’s go back to the very beginning

• March 05, 2019

It’s pretty apparent now that employees don’t really understand the ingredients that comprise the income tax system, because they never had to think about it before....

Payroll Services Mailbag: Valid W-4, parking stipends and more

• February 26, 2019

Editor of Business Management Daily's Payroll Legal Alert, and employment tax compliance expert Alice Gilman answers your payroll questions in this roundup of Payroll...