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Compensation & Benefits

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.

Get the math right for weekly and biweekly support payments

03/23/2017
Some state child support agencies are still adding an amount due to account for anomalies created by pay periods other than monthly, in addition to the monthly amount due that’s ordered by a court.

Same-day ACH takes off with payroll

03/23/2017
Rule changes at NACHA allow same-day settlements of payroll items.

C corps’ filing extensions now six months, up from five

03/23/2017
The IRS has clarified that all C corporations are eligible for an automatic six-month extension of time to File Form 1120, not five months.

IRS gives Form W-2 a nip and a tuck

03/23/2017
The 2017 W-2 incorporates changes that have been made over the last couple of tax seasons.

Stop identity refund fraud: Teach employees about proper withholding

03/23/2017
Late 2016 filers may still be owed tax refunds, and that’s great news for identity thieves, whose favorite pastime is stolen identity refund fraud.

Is unlimited vacation actually an invisible collar?

03/23/2017
An unlimited vacation policy can make ambitious high performers wary of appearing to be more absent than the person in the next cubicle.

Senate likely to kill state & local ‘auto-IRA’ retirement savings plans

03/21/2017
The Senate was poised last week to vote to block two Obama administration rules that made it easier for state and local governments to establish voluntary retirement savings plans for employees of small businesses.