The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations (T.D. 9617) (+2013 IRB LEXIS 257, May 3, 2013) requiring employers that have an employer identification number (EIN) to provide updated EIN application...more
5/13/2013
- EIN Final Rules IRS
Employers that paid federal income tax (FIT) and Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes on the value of health care benefits provided to employees' same-sex partners for tax years 2009 and after should consider whether...more
4/18/2013
- DOMA FICA Taxes Income Taxes Payroll Taxes Same-Sex Marriage
Effective August 1, 2013, the types of payroll deductions that North Dakota employers will be permitted to make will become more limited under amended rules. +N.D.C.C. ยง 34-14.04.1. Other than amounts employers are required...more
4/12/2013
- Payroll Deductions
As previously reported on XpertHR, the 2013 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, and Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements, were released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month without the...more
3/27/2013
- IRS W-2 W-3
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the 2013 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, and Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements. Please continue to check XpertHR daily for the anticipated IRS release of the 2013...more
3/14/2013
- IRS W-2 W-3
The US Department of Transportation has released the terminal charge and standard industry fare level (SIFL) mileage rates for the first half of 2013. These rates are revised semiannually and are used by the Internal Revenue...more
3/11/2013
- Department of Transportation IRS SIFL
As of July 1, 2013, Alabama employers will no longer be able to file and pay withheld taxes using the Paperless Filing and Payment System (PFPS). Instead, they will have to use My Alabama Taxes (MAT) to file and pay online....more
3/1/2013
- Electronic Filing Payroll Taxes Withholding Tax
Effective March 28, 2013, Michigan employers may begin charging employees a fee of $2 for processing income withholding orders for child support each time a payment is withheld, so long as total fees do not exceed $4 per...more
3/1/2013
- Child Support Wage Withholding
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released +Revenue Procedure 2013-18 (+2013-8 I.R.B. 503, superseding Revenue Procedure 2011-62, 2011-52 I.R.B. 1032, dated December 27, 2011 (reprinted as Publication 1141, Revised...more
2/26/2013
- Advertising IRS Logos Payroll Taxes SSA W-2 W-3
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the 2013 versions of the following four key publications that help employers meet their payroll tax responsibilities...more
2/18/2013
- Employer Tax Guides IRS Payroll Taxes W-4
The IRS has released the 2013 Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate. Employers use to this form to determine the amount of federal income taxes to withhold from employees' pay. If an employee fails to provide...more
1/23/2013
- IRS W-4 Withholding Allowances
As previously reported on XpertHR, due to the extreme need for charitable relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued guidance on the federal income and employment tax treatment of...more
12/12/2012
- Hurricane Sandy IRS
Eighteen states that took out loans from the federal government in order to keep their unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds solvent will lose the full Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) credit for 2012 because they did...more
12/3/2012
- FUTA Payroll Taxes
The following nine states have issued revised tax tables and other important information needed for calculating employee withholding effective for wages paid on and after January 1, 2013, unless noted otherwise....more
12/3/2012
- Payroll Taxes
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will not require employers to withhold New York State or Yonkers nonresident earnings tax from wages paid prior to January 1, 2013 to employees who are nonresidents of the...more
11/26/2012
- Hurricane Sandy
On October 26, 2012, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed into law the Promoting Employment Across Pennsylvania Act (PEP; House Bill 2626) to promote the creation of new jobs and economic development within the state....more
11/20/2012
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has further postponed certain tax filing and payment deadlines due to Hurricane Sandy. The relief also applies to a broader range of required acts than did the previous...more
11/16/2012
Due to the extreme need for charitable relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance on the federal income and employment tax treatment of leave-based donation programs adopted...more
11/11/2012
