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In the Payroll Mailbag: December ’19

11/14/2019
Reporting health benefits on Form W-2 … Scavenger hunt prizes: Taxable or not?

Federal contract workers get a 20¢ raise in 2020

11/14/2019
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the minimum hourly wage for nonexempts who work on or in connection with new federal contracts or replacements for expiring contracts increases 20¢, to $10.80 an hour.

Fix it fast: Handling 27 biweekly payrolls in 2020

11/14/2019
Employees paid biweekly are paid 26 times a year. Except when they’re not. And they’re not every 11 or 12 years, when there are 27 biweekly pay periods. Employees paid weekly experience an extra pay period every five or six years. The 27th/53rd pay period phenomenon is real and can cause havoc if you’re not prepared.

Withholding allowances are down, but not out, for 2020

11/14/2019
The good news, such as it is, is that the IRS can’t completely ditch withholding allowances, even though it’s dropped the word Allowance from the W-4, officially renaming it Employee’s Withholding Certificate. Here are our estimates of the 2020 withholding allowances.

IRS releases 401(k) COLA, other 2020 benefits amounts

11/07/2019
The amount employees can contribution into their 401(k) or 403(b) accounts increases by $500, to $19,500 for 2020, the IRS announced.

December 2019: Employer’s business tax calendar

10/31/2019
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

In the Payroll Mailbag: November ’19

10/21/2019
W-2s: Pay to play? … Reporting taxable perks for VPs

Clock winds down on WOTC

10/21/2019
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit provides an elective general business credit to employers that hire individuals who are members of one or more targeted groups. Maximum credit per employee: $2,400.

Proposed regs raise the value of company vehicles

10/21/2019
The base value of company vehicles that qualify for a simplified method of determining employees’ personal use of company vehicles—the fleet valuation rule or the standard mileage rule—increases substantially under proposed regulations.

2019 W-2s: No changes to reporting health benefits

10/21/2019
Use this chart to determine whether you must report health benefits on employees’ W-2s.