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Year-end alert: Your checklist for now to the finish line

Changes include earlier deadline for W-2, Copy A This year-end, you have more to do and less time to do it in. As you review this checklist of key Payroll deadlines, take note of which ones are new and which ones will hit you earlier than ever before: As of Dec. 1 2016, your company [...]

November 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|

2017 Form 941: IRS planning to add new lines

  When the IRS releases Form 941 for 2017, you’ll notice a couple extra lines. That’s because the IRS is creating a new tax credit for 2017 – and the agency recently released a new draft of the form. The new credit is set to go on Line 11 as “Qualified small business payroll tax [...]

November 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|

Employees should have been paid OT

Employees who worked at multiple job sites should have been paid OT Hours would have added up to over 40 in a workweek For the purposes of calculating overtime, the Dept. of Labor doesn’t care where employees work – just who they’re working for. And that can lead to a lot of confusion for multisite [...]

November 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|

DOL Releases New FLSA Overtime Regulations

The Department of Labor (DOL) released its final regulations making drastic changes to overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  These changes will present considerable challenges to any employer that has employees they pay as Salary. Here are some key elements of the new regulation that you need to know now: 1. Salary [...]

November 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|

Memorial Day FTD Penalty Error

Many taxpayers who made their next-day employment tax deposits on Tuesday, May 31, or semi-weekly employment tax deposits on Thursday, June 2, 2016, were incorrectly sent notices that their deposits were late. Due to a programming error, IRS systems did not recognize changes in deposit due dates created by the Memorial Day holiday observed on [...]

October 7th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Improperly classified workers, now quarterly reports due to the DOL

EMPLOYER'S PAYROLL SYSTEM MUST BE OVERHAULED, TOO The Dept. of Labor (DOL) usually settles violations by issuing fines and telling companies to fix problems. But occasionally it goes further. And instead of following up with the employer directly, it gets others to keep DOL officials in the loop. That recently happened with a Massachusetts-based construction [...]

October 7th, 2016|Uncategorized|