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Employees have been reclassified. Now what?

08/11/2016

You’ve done your due diligence in response to the new regulations that substantially raise the weekly salary employees must earn to be exempt, now comes the hard part—training their managers in the finer points of the FLSA.

Partnerships and payroll taxes don’t mix

08/04/2016
If you administer payroll for a partnership, you have problems. Final regulations reiterate the IRS’ position on partners: You can be a partner or an employee, but you can’t be both. And, according to the regs, this remains true if a partnership owns a disregarded entity.

APA Congress: Identity theft-proof your workplace

07/29/2016
Shockingly (or maybe not), more than half the attendees at the APA’s identity theft workshop acknowledged that they were bait for the phishing expedition undertaken earlier this year to steal employees’ W-2 information by spoofing a company’s executives.

Company’s delay = $9.6 million in taxes, penalties, interest

07/26/2016
“I’ll get to it tomorrow” isn’t a winning legal strategy.

IRS, DOJ highlight payroll initiatives

07/22/2016
Over 70% of the federal government’s ready cash is obtained through withholding. That puts you in the crosshairs for new compliance initiatives from the IRS and its in-house lawyers from the Tax Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Aug. 3 is near, W-2c procrastinators beware

07/18/2016
Aug. 3 is the date when information return penalties increase from $110 per form (up to $1,669,500), to $270 (up to $3,339,000), for W-2 missteps.

Dealing with the coronavirus means swimming with sharks

07/07/2016
You’re going to need a bigger boat. Managing payroll is more complicated since the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year. Planning ahead now will save precious year-end time later.

July 2016: Employer’s business tax calendar

06/30/2016
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Know when you can dock exempt employees’ pay

06/27/2016
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, exempt employees must be paid the same salary regardless of the quality or quantity of their work.

In the Payroll Mailbag …

06/23/2016
Late pay W-2c exception? Company liable for FICA withholding mistake?