Let your payroll folks know: The feds have put together another game of chance — with the grand-prize being an audit of your company’s tax returns. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Employment tax noncompliance, Fringe benefits, IRS audits, Lottery, National Research Program, Payroll, Tax returns
A recent study gives powerful incentive to check in with your Benefits department to ensure you’re in compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Benefits department, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, ERISA compliance, ERISA Pros, Form 5500, LLC, U.S. Census Bureau reports
Your Payroll and Benefits team may be dealing with some disgruntled workers come tax time this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Benefits, Federal tax tables, Making Work Pay, Payroll, Social Security recipients, Tax credit, the Department of the Treasury
Start passing out the straws. Whoever draws the short one gets to tell employees how much less you’ll be reimbursing them for every business mile they drive. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Business mile, Charitable mileage rate, Gasbuddy, IRS, January 1, Medical and moving rate, Standard mileage rate
Beginning in February, 6,000 random (unlucky) companies will start getting the IRS version of Happy New Year’s wishes: a notice they’re going to be audited over employment taxes. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Exec pay and fringe benefits, Feds, Form 1099, Independent contractors, IRS agents, Random audits
Year-end will be here before you know it. So if Payroll has made any COBRA subsidy payments, you’ll want to make sure they’ve claimed credit on Form 941. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: COBRA credit, Form 941, Overpayment, Payroll, Subsidy payments
If your firm relies on per-diems when it comes to business travel, you’ll want to take a look at FY’10 per-diem rates and make some adjustments. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: A/P, Business travel, CONUS, IRS, Non-standard locations, Per-diem rates
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Of course, everyone thinks it’s a smart idea for people to save for their golden years. But now your company’s going to have to take a much more active role in getting them to do it!
Tags: 401(k), Automatic enrollment, IRS, Obama, Retirement plans, Retirement Scurity for American Families
It may seem light years away now, but year-end will be here before you know it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, Deadlines, e-reporting, Forms, Taxable wage base, W-2s, Year-end
Who hasn’t had dealings with the feds that involved death threats, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and a trifecta of loaded weapons? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Death threats, False tax returns, IRS agent, Loaded weapons, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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