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Compensation & Benefits

June 2017: Employer’s business tax calendar

04/26/2017
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Regs ease up on employers’ matching 401(k) contributions

04/26/2017
Employees are always vested in the amounts they contribute into their 401(k) plan accounts on a pretax basis. The same isn’t true for employer matching contributions, which means that 401(k) plans must account for forfeitures when employees leave before they become vested.

In the Payroll Mailbag …

04/26/2017
Will this W-2 attract the IRS? … Free legal services as a tax-free fringe benefit

Payroll odds and ends from recent IRS email advice

04/26/2017
The IRS is a prodigious publisher. Here are digests of emails sent between IRS offices.

Federal poverty line safe harbor set for 2019 plan year

04/26/2017
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 $102.63 a month.

Your kids’ summer employment: Yes, you need time sheets

04/26/2017
Even children who work in the family business must have their time recorded on time sheets. What’s more, those time sheets must be credible, if you want to take a salary deduction for the wages you’ll pay your kids this summer.

Minnesota bill would limit municipal minimum wages

04/25/2017
Add Minnesota to the growing list of states where conservative legislators are trying to overturn local ordinances raising the minimum wage.

Snapshot: How satisfied are employees with their benefits?

04/25/2017
Not too many workers are absolutely wild about their benefits packages.

Health, retirement perks remain strong draws

04/25/2017
Health insurance remains the employer-provided benefit employees value most, followed by retirement savings.

Can we require seven straight days of work in California?

04/24/2017
Q. Tax season is very busy at our accounting firm. Can I schedule employees to work every day of the week during the spring?