The Prez just submitted his budget proposal for FY’11 — and it’s loaded with changes that will land in Finance’s lap.
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Tags: Automatic enrollment, Cell phone taxability, COBRA, Depreciation deductions, FY2011, LIFO accounting, Obama's budget, Prez, Retirement plans
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.
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Tags: Employment tax noncompliance, Fringe benefits, IRS audits, Lottery, National Research Program, Payroll, Tax returns
Your Payroll and Benefits team may be dealing with some disgruntled workers come tax time this year.
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Tags: Benefits, Federal tax tables, Making Work Pay, Payroll, Social Security recipients, Tax credit, the Department of the Treasury
In case you didn’t have enough on your to-do list for 2010, the feds just added to it.
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Tags: compliance, Critical changes, DOL, Federal agencies, Fiduciary, Finance, Investment advice, OSHA, Recordkeeping task, Regs and rules, Wage-hour audits
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.
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Tags: Business mile, Charitable mileage rate, Gasbuddy, IRS, January 1, Medical and moving rate, Standard mileage rate
Are we spending to much on IT? It’s a question many companies wrestle with on a regular basis — and they don’t have to.
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Tags: Egnyte, Inventory audit, IT projects, RingCentral, Tech spending, Vendor contracts, Web-based software
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.
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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.
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Tags: COBRA credit, Form 941, Overpayment, Payroll, Subsidy payments
When the Philadelphia Eagles signed Michael Vick, none of the verbal shrapnel the team was hit with focused on the generous incentive the Birds stood to gain from the signing.
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Tags: Michael Vick, MORE, Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Mayor's Office for the Re-entry of Ex-Offenders, PR, Tax credit
It may seem light years away now, but year-end will be here before you know it.
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Tags: Accounts Payable, Deadlines, e-reporting, Forms, Taxable wage base, W-2s, Year-end
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