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...

Same creepy robovoice … 3 different phone numbers … it must be tax refund time!

• February 25, 2019

Phishers have had to become more sophisticated, since the W-2 scam has basically played itself out. So they’re targeting employees directly.

2018 1040s: Where the TCJA rubber meets the road

• February 18, 2019

So far, employees are really, really unhappy with their tax refunds, or lack thereof. And almost everyone is pointing their finger at the 2018 withholding tables.

Special analysis: Business meals deduction

• February 15, 2019

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s extension of the 50% corporate deduction limit to convenience meals has allowed the IRS to refine its previous guidance.

(Oops, just a little too late) IRS clarifies moving expense reporting on W-2s

• February 11, 2019

Exactly one week after you filed your W-2s with the Social Security Administration, the IRS clarified that employers’ moving expense reimbursements didn’t need to be...

The IRS shutdown is over. Now what?

• February 04, 2019

What does the shutdown mean for all the paperwork that’s piled up and all the audits that were put on hold during the shutdown?

What’s so funny? Payroll, that’s what!

• January 28, 2019

It’s time for our annual humor column. This year, we’ve roamed far and wide.

Compensation and benefits regulations from the IRS, DOL and HHS

• January 25, 2019

401k and HRA changes are part of the new proposed compensation and benefits regulations and related guidance issued by the IRS, the Department of Labor and the...