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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

As an employer, you are responsible for withholding various taxes from employees’ wages. After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay?

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Can Payroll Services Handle Direct Deposit?

Patriot Software

Most employers handle direct deposit through their payroll software. Payroll services calculate employees’ wages, taxes and deductions, and take-home pay. […] Read More Direct deposit is a convenient payment method for employees, who receive their paycheck quickly and securely on payday.

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What Are Payroll Deductions?

Patriot Software

You know there are deductions to take out of your employees’ paychecks. But, are they pre-tax vs. post-tax deductions? What do you withhold from an employee’s take-home pay? What are payroll deductions? Read on to learn the different deductions you have to take out of each employee’s paycheck.

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How to Calculate Net Pay for Payroll

Patriot Software

Between taxes and benefit deductions, the employee’s take-home pay could be far from the $50,000 sticker price (cue the sad violin). To find their take-home pay, you need to know how to calculate net pay. Employee salary: $50,000 a year. But you know that’s not what they’re walking away with.

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Your choice: To ditch Social Security tax withholding or not

Business Management Daily

President Trump’s executive order suspending the employee portion of Social Security taxes, issued two weeks ago, left many employers wondering what to do. Then, the Treasury Department offered some clarity on the payroll tax. We’ve spent the better part of this week reading other tax lawyers’ opinions about this.

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Employees and Employers Save with Cafeteria Plans

InterWest Insurance Services

As health care costs continue rising and employees are being asked to shoulder more of the expense burden, you can help them by offering a tax-advantaged plan that allows them to save for medical expenses. Employees can save an average of 30% in federal, state and local taxes on items they already pay for out of pocket.

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Flexible Benefit Plans Give Employees More Options

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers fund these flexible benefit plans with funds that are deducted from their employees’ salaries on a pre-tax basis. Since the salary reductions are not received by the employee, they are not considered wages for income tax purposes. Set-up and tax implications.