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Disaster planning: Ideas for Payroll & HR

04/17/2020
The coronavirus pandemic is just one disaster among many that could interrupt your business. There will be others. HR and Payroll need to work together to ensure the continuity of the business during interruptions. Here’s some help to get you started.

Pay, benefits adapt to coronavirus pressures

04/14/2020
Results of the “WorldatWork COVID-19 Employer Response Survey” provide a window into how organizations are addressing compensation and benefits issues.

Here’s how the Internal Revenue Code can help you out of coronavirus-related jams

04/09/2020
Don’t be completely afraid of the Internal Revenue Code. There are provisions that can help you and your employees out.

CARES Act offers 2 more employer-relief measures

04/09/2020
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, signed March 27, is best known for providing a $2 trillion stimulus jolt to a coronavirus-stunned economy. However, the CARES Act also contains two provisions intended to help employers keep from having to lay off employees.

IRS/DOL FAQs cover COVID-19 documentation

04/08/2020
Employees could begin taking paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on April 1. Which means you could begin filing Form 7200 to get an advance on your paid leave tax credits or you could begin reducing your tax deposits to pay for leave. But all of this needs to be backed up with documentation. And as with all things labor-related, and, especially payroll taxes, your documentation must pass muster.

May 2020: Employer’s business tax calendar

04/07/2020
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

ACA poverty line safe harbor set for 2020 plan year

04/07/2020
Under the Affordable Care Act’s federal poverty line safe harbor, group health benefits are affordable during the 2020 plan year if employees don’t pay more than $103.99 per month.

Feeling insecure about the SECURE Act?

04/07/2020
The ink is barely dry on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019—the SECURE Act—which was included in a year-end 2019 appropriations bill. Yet it’s evident the IRS will have its hands full clarifying the law.

In the Payroll Mailbag: April ’20

04/07/2020
What are disposable earnings for garnishment purposes? … Can a widower change his pretax cafeteria plan deductions?

Tax-exempt orgs due refunds on cost of employees’ parking

04/07/2020
The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act repeals the UBIT levied on tax-exempt employers for the cost of employees’ parking, retroactive to the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. So you may be due a refund for 2017 and 2018.