Ready, Set, Sell Your Business: What Are Buyers Looking For?
After working for many years to grow your business, you may have reached the point where you’re thinking about selling. Maybe retirement is on the horizon and you’re counting on […]
Have You Misclassified Employees As Independent Contractors?
An employer enjoys several advantages when it classifies a worker as an independent contractor rather than as an employee. For example, it isn’t required to pay payroll taxes, withhold taxes, […]
Summertime: Time For A Second Quarter Payroll Check-Up
As spring turns to summer, another payroll quarter is ending. Here are items to check off your to-do list. Confirm your federal tax deposits. Do you outsource the preparation of any […]
Structuring For Success: Employee Bonus Plans
Many companies today are creating bonus and incentive compensation plans to reward hard-working employees for jobs well done. Such plans can be a win-win: Employees receive a tangible reward for […]
Employers: Have You Amended Your FSA Plan?
Health care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow employees to redirect pretax income to an employer-sponsored plan that pays, or reimburses them for, qualified medical expenses not covered by insurance. A […]
Affordable Care Act Update
The Affordable Care Act has undergone multiple legislative and administrative changes since enactment in 2010. Here’s the status of several of the tax provisions. Individual penalty. The penalty for not […]
Preventing Embezzlement At Your Organization
When an employee is caught embezzling funds at a giant multinational corporation, news outlets are eager to broadcast the story from coast to coast. Yet small organizations are victimized by […]
How To Deal With DOMA & Payroll Tax Refunds
Did you pay extra social security, Medicare, and withholding tax on certain fringe benefits during 2013 because of this year’s tax law recognition of same-sex marriage? Whether you’re an employer […]
Avoid The Year-End Vacation-Time Scramble
Every December, are your employees scrambling to use up their vacation time because of limits on what they can roll over to the new year? Or do you allow rollovers […]
Succession Planning: 5 Key Questions To Ask
Every business owner needs to consider how he or she can gracefully, efficiently and amicably exit his or her company. Here are some key questions to ask when determining just […]