Alice Gilman is an employment tax compliance expert with more than 25 years of experience and is the editor of Business Management Daily's Payroll Legal Alert. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and received her law degree from the University of Bridgeport.
You can help employees with their current educational expenses, pick up their student loans, or even help out employees’ children with their educational expenses. But...
The saga of 401(k) catch-up contributions under SECURE 2.0 is well known. Beginning with catch-up contributions to be made next year, employees whose Social Security...
Final regulations implement the Taxpayer First Act by requiring you to e-file all your information returns—your W-2s, 1099s, 1095s, and other information returns—if...
The IRS and the National Taxpayer Advocate have been going at each other hammer and tongs over the mountains of paper forms the agency still processes. The NTA, for...
Direct deposit is a closed loop. You send the payroll file to your bank a few days before payday and your bank sends files through the ACH network to employees’ banks....
While some scammers and phishers are using the U.S. mail for their own nefarious purposes, the main avenues for tax scams remain email and text messaging—these methods...
Mail scams may be making a comeback, but the quickest, easiest, and most efficient way for a scammer or phisher to steal employees’ identities is to hack into your...
The Biden administration’s program to cancel up to $20,000 in student loans is dead. According to the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, the administration exceeded its...
Locking down the definition of an independent contractor can be challenging because the definition bounces around depending on the federal agency. Decisions issued by...
Hiring remains challenging this summer, especially if you’re in the hospitality industry. If you step outside your comfort zone and hire kids from disadvantaged...
Direct deposit works through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network—you instruct your bank to prepare a payroll file and it disburses employees’ pay...
While fortunately a rare circumstance, dealing with payroll for a recently deceased employee can be tricky. What pay is taxable? What do you do with their final...
Health/tracking apps downloaded to smartphones have confounded employees and employers since the Supreme Court issued its 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v....
The National Labor Relations Board doesn’t like overbroad things. In April, it invalidated an employer’s plan requiring employees to sign nondisparagement agreements...
The labor market is still tight and employers are having a rough time hiring. You might be tempted to hire 14- and 15-year-olds this summer to work jobs older teens and...
The NBA finals started last week—the Denver Nuggets vs. the Miami Heat. Basketball is our second favorite sport, mostly because you don’t need to know all the rules...
How well do you get along with your spouse or ex? Or boss? Or the company’s president? It’s not an idle question. The Supreme Court has settled the question of...
You can’t code an employee’s pay and deductions properly without an employee pay profile, said Jonathan Stone, managing director of KPMG LLP. Stone shared his...
Back in the dim mists of antiquity, when most people watched broadcast TV, our favorite part of Mission: Impossible was at the end, when the good guys peeled off their...
The pandemic officially ended last Thursday. What a relief. But lots of things linger in its wake. More people are feeling lonely, stressed, and depressed. And while...
