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What Can Your Small Business Do about Healthcare Benefits?

Healthcare and insurance continues to be a quagmire for millions of people to wade through today. If you are an employer with any number of employees, healthcare benefits are on your mind, too. (more…)

Posted in: Benefits and Health Care, Employee Benefits, Operating a Small Business, Payroll Processing, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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6 Payroll Terms Business Owners Need to Know

As a small business owner, you know all about your products or services. You’re the expert. However, when it comes to payroll, you may be an amateur with a limited understanding about compensation and taxes. Nevertheless, you may be trying to handle your company’s payroll on your own. Or, maybe you’ve realized you just don’t have the know-how to tackle your company’s payroll, so you’ve hired an employee or a payroll services like The Payroll Department to handle your company’s payroll for you. (more…)

Posted in: Operating a Small Business, Payroll

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New Form I-9 has January 21, 2017 Deadline

It’s that time of year, isn’t it? I’m not talking about holidays and festivities, I’m talking about getting ready to close out the year and get ready for the new one. (more…)

Posted in: HR Rules, Regulations and Laws, Human Resources, IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Policies and Procedures, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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Some States Try Auto-IRAs to Encourage Savings

Experts have been sounding alarm bells for years about the number of individuals who are not saving enough for retirement.  But many workers continue to put off preparing for the future.  Now some states are taking matters into their own hands.  Several states either have passed legislation or are considering legislation which would create a so-called “auto-IRA.”  States are hoping that these mandatory IRAs will spur savings among employees. (more…)

Posted in: HR Rules, Regulations and Laws, Human Resources, Operating a Small Business, Retirement plans, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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Why Your Small Business Needs a Budget

Do you create a budget for your small business every year? If not, you really should develop one. A budget is a spending plan for your business. It helps you estimate your business’s costs, revenues and resources for a specific time frame, so you’ll know if you have enough money to do the things you need or want to do with your business. (more…)

Posted in: Bookkeeping and Accounting, Operating a Small Business

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Overtime Rule Put on Hold!

Small business owners can take a collective breath – at least temporarily. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction regarding the Dec. 1 implementation date of new Overtime Rules released by the Labor Department in May, 2016. (more…)

Posted in: Human Resources, Operating a Small Business, Payroll, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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Retirement Benefits Come from Employment and Payroll

In today’s world where so many workers have lost their pensions, there is one employer who has remained steadfast in meeting their pension commitments – the United States government. As of an August, 2016 article in the USNews.com, there was still one beneficiary receiving benefits from a Civil War pensioner. (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Payroll Processing

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Could You Handle Different State’s Payroll Taxes and Regulations?

I was really excited for a colleague who got a big contract that was going to expand his company this year. He was excited because his small business would no longer be just a local business, but would now be a business that worked nation-wide. We celebrated with a congratulatory lunch. It wasn’t but a couple of weeks later that he called and was obviously down. I was afraid he’d lost the deal. But no, he said it was worse – it was about payroll taxes. (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Payroll Processing, Payroll Taxes, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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Honest, It Was Just a Mistake

It was just a mistake. Those are awful words – and impactful words – especially when it comes to financial aspects of a small business. And when it applies to payroll, payroll taxes and the IRS, those words could mean the end of a small business. (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Operating a Small Business, Payroll, Payroll Processing

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Legislation Can Change Everything … At Any Time

You never know when new legislation might be passed, turning your small business’s life upside down.  Just when you think you have things figured out and your business is on the right track, the government can decide that you need to change the way you operate.  Small business owners in New York are currently facing a scenario in which proposed legislation threatens to change the way they will be allowed to pay their employees. (more…)

Posted in: IRS and Tax forms, Payroll, Rules, Regulations and Laws

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