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Should You Provide a Work-from-home Reimbursement to Remote Employees?

Patriot Software

If so, you may consider offering work-from-home reimbursement to help workers cover remote-related expenses. Read on to learn what a work-from-home reimbursement covers, tax details, and state guidelines. Do you have a temporary or permanently remote workforce?

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State Income Taxes for Out of State Employees

Patriot Software

Each state’s income taxes are different. Some states have low taxes, some have high taxes, and some states don’t have income taxes at all.

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4 payroll trends likely to outlive the pandemic

Business Management Daily

So where do we go from here? There are four factors that have probably become a permanent part of the payroll practice. Electronic everything in payroll. Most states don’t allow you to push employees into direct deposit, but you can make these employees’ lives increasingly uncomfortable by mailing their paychecks home.

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Untangling Issues Related to State Tax Withholding for Remote Employees

Patriot Software

Before the pandemic, fewer than 6% of Americans worked from home. So, there’s some bad news: The confusion around state tax withholding for remote employees is going to stick around—at least for the short term. We know that withholding taxes can […] READ MORE.

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Your October payroll questions answered

Business Management Daily

So before we turn our attention to post-season baseball, let’s sort through some pandemic-related payroll questions that have come to our attention. These reimbursements may also be excluded from their income for tax purposes. If the answer is no, you have to tax the items. It depends. Is this something we can do?

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5 Unusual Payroll Issues That Need Resolving Fast (and How to Troubleshoot Them)

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Payroll problems can be a thorn in the side of any business, so it’s important to have a plan of action in place to either avoid them entirely, or remedy them as and when they arise. This means ensuring the correct tax rate has been applied, any benefits are up-to-date, and all other calculations are accurate.

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It’s time to check your security as tax season comes around

Business Management Daily

Computer security is an unfortunate fact of modern payroll administration—especially right now, when phishers and scammers know you and your staff are busy and distracted. You already know to not respond to email requests from so-called executives who need employees’ W-2 data emailed to them ASAP.

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