Last month, an executive order was signed deferring a portion of payroll taxes. This means that employers can opt to not withhold certain taxes from their staff compensation for the rest of this year. For the employees, it means that they will get more take‐home pay now on the understanding that the sums not withheld […]
Payroll Services
by Larry Goldsmith, C.P.A., J.D., C.F.F.A. As a Forensic CPA, I often hear stories about clients or their partners, employees, or spouses who have stolen or have hidden assets. But there’s one scam which you don’t hear about very often and which should scare every business owner: what happens when your trusted payroll service fails […]
by Matthew Bergman, CPA Beginning July 1, 2011, the 0.2% Federal unemployment tax (FUTA) surtax is no longer in effect. Thus, the FUTA tax rate, before consideration of state unemployment tax credits, is now 6.0%. Background. Under Code Sec. 3301(1), the 0.2% FUTA surtax expired on June 30, 2011. The surtax was part of the […]
by Matthew Bergman, CPA The effective tax rate for the Federal Employment Taxes (“FUTA”) was reduced from .8% (.008) to .6% (.006) on July 1, 2011. Congress has announced that the FUTA .2% surcharge, first enacted in 1977, will not be extended after June 30, 2011. Employers have been required to pay a flat rate […]