Payroll

IRS won’t bow to Tax Court in payroll tax case

03/06/2015

Closely-held corporations and their owners can seem inseparable. But this fluidity stops at Payroll’s door—in other words, when income tax withholding begins. The IRS recently issued a document called an Action on Decision in which it said that it won’t follow a Tax Court decision that required it to honor a company’s designation of its delinquent payroll taxes as payment for a specific employee’s delinquent income taxes.

Is it double-dipping to receive both workers’ comp and Social Security benefits?

03/03/2015

Q. Can an injured worker obtain both workers’ compensation benefits and Social Security disability benefits at the same time?

Can missed quotas add up to docked pay?

03/03/2015

Q. Can an employee’s pay be docked for failing to meet a production quota?

How to handle unclaimed paychecks

03/02/2015

A recent lawsuit in Delaware serves as a good reminder for employers to make sure they handle unclaimed paychecks the correct way.

March 2015: Employer’s business tax calendar

02/28/2015

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

Auditors get new marching orders for payroll audits

02/27/2015

Outsourcing your payroll operations to a third party doesn’t get you off the hook for your undeposited payroll taxes, if your third party drops the ball.

27 biweekly pay periods in 2015? Can that be correct?

02/26/2015

Q: I’m new to payroll. I just noticed that we will have 27 biweekly pay periods in 2015. How do we deal with this? How should we communicate this to employees?

What’s the current mileage reimbursement rate?

02/24/2015

Q. Some of my construction employees must drive their personal cars to and from various work sites during work hours. Am I required to reimburse these employees for the miles they drive during this travel? If so, what is the amount per mile?

What counts as compensable working time?

02/23/2015

Q: We’re a property management company. Nonexempt employees must remain on-call at night and during the weekend to handle emergencies. Usually all they have to do is call the plumber or another service provider. If an employee receives a text or call, is that time compensable? Does the length of the call have any impact on whether the time is compensable?

Can we make employees pay for new uniforms?

02/18/2015

Q. We had to provide an employee with a replacement uniform shirt after he lost the one we gave him when he was hired. Can we require him to pay for this replacement by taking it out of his pay?