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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.

Snapshot: Employers are the nation’s tax collectors

04/04/2017
More than $2.6 trillion flows through U.S. employers to Uncle Sam.

May 2017: Employer’s business tax calendar

03/31/2017
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

All-states chart on mandatory breaks

03/24/2017
Your guide to rules on mandatory breaks in each state.

In the Payroll Mailbag …

03/23/2017
On-call pay conundrums … Tread carefully with executive pay

Standard mileage rule: SUVs up $100, cars unchanged

03/23/2017
Employers that use the standard mileage rate to value employees’ personal use of company vehicles are restricted to supplying vehicles of modest value.

Cities get their own safe harbor for auto-enrollment IRAs

03/23/2017
Final regulations allow cities, counties and other political subdivisions with populations equal to or greater than the population of the least populated state to require private employers without retirement plans to auto-enroll employees into IRAs without running into ERISA.