Some taxpayers are receiving automatically generated IRS notices of underpayments and penalties with respect to Form W-2 income tax and FICA withholdings, unemployment taxes, and backup withholding, as well as other year-end...more
Employers must issue Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, to employees by January 31st, so you should have received yours by now. But have you ever actually stopped to look at your W-2? And do you know what it all means? Your...more
Employers commonly make payments to former employees for a number of reasons. Two of the more routine payments are those from a non-qualified deferred compensation plan (such as payments from a supplemental executive...more
Little-noticed changes in the 2015 PATH Act accelerated form filing deadlines and waived retroactive corrections for small-dollar errors, effective 2017. The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015 was...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (the Act) retroactively increased the 2015 employer and employee Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) and Federal Income Tax exclusion limit for transit benefits, from $130...more
On December 18, 2015, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law No. 114-113) which amended the Internal Revenue Code to retroactively (and permanently) adjust the limits on qualified transportation...more
A recent federal court decision illustrates how “loan” arrangements between physicians and their employers, if not properly structured, may be treated as the payment of taxable compensation and the employers may be hit with...more