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The essential guide to payroll in New Zealand

Ascender

Whether you’re considering setting up payroll operations in New Zealand, or you’re joining an established team there, you’ll need to be across the basics of payroll compliance. Overview of payroll requirements. Tax and other deductions. Here’s what you need to know. New Zealand’s tax year runs from 1 st April to 31 st.

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Twelve Tax Planning Topics for 2022

Money Talk

Here are 12 tax topics to consider: Itemized Deductions- Only about 10% of taxpayers can itemize since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect in 2018. Strategies to garner a tax benefit for charitable gifts to qualified charities include “bunching” deductions into one tax year and setting up and funding a donor advised fund.

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Smallest Firms See Largest Health Insurance Hikes

InterWest Insurance Services

A new report has found that small businesses that purchase their group health insurance online or through payroll vendors saw the largest premium hikes in 2022, significantly higher than those that went through brokers. Since 2018, individual premiums have increased by 21% while family premiums have increased by 18%.

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Employment laws to watch in 2018

Insperity

Employment laws continue to evolve, and 2018 will usher in some big changes in two of our most populous states, California and New York. The HR world is abuzz with all the implications of implementing New York state’s paid family leave legislation and California’s ban-the-box law, both of which went into effect January 2018.

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Is relocation reimbursement taxable? How to assess tax liability for employee relocation

Business Management Daily

Expenses that could previously be deducted on an employee’s tax return may no longer qualify, and relocation benefits that previously could be paid out without counting towards a taxpayer’s income may now result in higher tax liabilities. Can employees deduct their moving expenses? Are moving expenses paid directly to vendors taxable?

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How much should I contribute to my HSA?

WEX Inc.

If you’re covered by an HSA-eligible health plan (or high-deductible health plan ), the IRS allows you to put as much as $3,650 per year (in 2022) into your health savings account (HSA). If you’re uncomfortable contributing the IRS annual max to your HSA through pre-tax payroll contributions, contribute what you are comfortable with.

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Single Touch Payroll ? It?s Time To Get Ready

Ascender

It is time for businesses to get ready for Single Touch Payroll (STP), a new legislation being introduced on 1 July 2018. The new legislation changes the way the Australian government requires businesses to report payroll information to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), as part of the government’s digital-first initiative.

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