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Check W-2, Box 12 Code D to ensure 401(k) compliance

Business Management Daily

The IRS uses those codes to determine compliance with other sections of the tax code, like 401(k) compliance and teasing out employees who earn too much to make tax-deductible IRA contributions. W-2 coding for 401(k) contributions. Use Code D to report 401(k) make-up pretax contributions.

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If You’re Paid Biweekly, You’ll Probably Get an Extra Paycheck in 2020

HR Digest

Does this mean you’ll get an extra paycheck in 2020? Does this mean you’ll earn more than your annual salary in 2020? Or will the amount of each paycheck in 2020 be lower than in 2019? lower each pay period during 2020 (although you’d make the same total salary). This means that gross pay would be 3.7%

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2022 IRS HSA, FSA and 401(k) Limits [A Complete Guide]

Griffin Benefits

Together, these combined announcements by the IRS detail 2022 adjusted limits to the amounts employees can tuck away pretax into Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), transportation benefits, and retirement plans such as 401(k)s. HSA & HDHP Limits Increase for 2022.

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An Introduction to IRMAA

Money Talk

There is a two-year look-back period so 2022 IRMAA surcharges are based on 2020 modified adjusted gross income (MAGI). A letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) notifies beneficiaries of their expected benefit, including IRMAA deductions, if any. 2020) to the year that they are paying IRMAA (e.g., to $573.30

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Trends to watch for in 2020 at the IRS

Business Management Daily

Employees may account for tax dependents in Step 3 of the 2020 W-4. Regulations on deducting employees’ meal expenses. This follows up on Notice 2018-76, which sets five criteria for corporate deductions for employees’ meals. But it is useful as a road map for what the IRS wants to accomplish by June 30, 2020.

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Leap year! How to handle 27 biweekly payrolls in 2020

Business Management Daily

1 payday back into 2020, you’d still have 27 biweekly pay periods, this time in 2021. Hourly-paid nonexempts are impacted only to the extent of withholding and deductions. Employees’ benefits deductions and allowances (e.g., Most payroll systems allow you to suppress benefits’ deductions for the extra pay period.

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New Laws for 2023 part II

InterWest Insurance Services

As the year was drawing to a close, Cal/OSHA was working on a COVID-19 standard to replace the emergency standard that has been in place since 2020. If you already have a qualified retirement plan (such as a 401(k) or a payroll-deduction IRA) for your employees, you do not have to participate. Starting Jan.

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