Payroll

IRS provides post-audit payroll tax advice

08/15/2019

Payroll audits that result in tax underpayments have an unexpected, ugly side effect: employees will have additional FICA-taxable income. Worse: You may be completely out-of-pocket for the underwithheld income taxes that are now due. The IRS, in technical advice to auditors, instructs them on how to handle this additional income and taxes.

Employer in hot water for completing fraudulent W-2s

08/15/2019

Revenge W-2s and 1099s are never a good idea. If you have a beef with a former employee, it would be best to leave the Social Security Administration and the IRS out of it.

September 2019: Employer’s business tax calendar

07/31/2019

Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

IRS will allow shortened SSNs on employees’ W-2 forms

07/25/2019

Starting in 2021, the IRS will permit employers to shorten Social Security numbers that are printed on employees’ W-2 wage statements.

EEO-1 portal opens for pay data collection

07/25/2019

The EEOC has opened the web portal employers must use to report compensation data required by the much-delayed component 2 of the annual EEO-1 report.

Court rules California’s auto-IRA program is legal

07/18/2019

A federal trial court has ruled that California’s Secure Choices law—which mandates that small employers that don’t already have retirement plans enroll employees into auto-deduction IRAs and withhold the contributions from their pay—isn’t an ERISA-covered retirement plan.

Payroll

IRS provides post-audit payroll tax advice

Employer in hot water for completing fraudulent W-2s

September 2019: Employer’s business tax calendar

IRS will allow shortened SSNs on employees’ W-2 forms

EEO-1 portal opens for pay data collection

Court rules California’s auto-IRA program is legal

W-2 Box 9: On again, off again

In the Payroll Mailbag: August ‘19

Payroll FYI: General interest letters from the IRS

Final regs cover duties of CPEOs and clients

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