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5 things you should do now to prepare for year-end payroll reporting

BMT Office Administration

However, Payroll teams are busy preparing for a different season — year-end reporting. The e-filing mandate applies to all information returns, including Forms 1099-DIV, which are often filed by Shareholder Services. Send independent contractors Form W-9 to capture their SSNs and addresses. Test your systems for 2022 filing.

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Sorting out taxes and reporting for a deceased employee

BMT Office Administration

While fortunately a rare circumstance, dealing with payroll for a recently deceased employee can be tricky. Hopefully this isn’t an issue that comes up for your payroll department often, but it’s important to know what to do, and get it right, in the event that it does happen. What pay is taxable?

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

Besides the EEOC, the IRS also has requirements for employee documents, including which forms you need to have for each employee, such as W-4s. Confidential documents include medical files, tax documents, employee benefits , payroll records, and more. Here’s what you’ll need to include in your confidential employee files.

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Ensuring payroll compliance in 2024: What’s new?

BMT Office Administration

Maintaining payroll compliance is a must for accounting departments, but it’s often easier said than done. That’s especially true whenever new changes come about, and 2023 was a year rife with new payroll regulations, trends, and initiatives. From the implementation of SECURE 2.0 From the implementation of SECURE 2.0

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Rocky tax season could lead to slow refunds for employees

BMT Office Administration

2021 Form 1040 tax filing stats so far. What’s up with Forms 941? million unprocessed Forms 941 and 360,000 unprocessed Forms 941-X, some of which it can’t process until the related 941s are processed. A portion of this backlog is due to pandemic-related payroll credits. For the week ending Feb. 25, 2022, (i.e.,

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How to handle remote employee time tracking

BMT Office Administration

Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. This traditional form of time tracking has long been used as a way to manage employee productivity & performance, but the advent of remote work has thrown a wrench into the works. Employee scheduling. Productivity monitoring.

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Epic pandemic? Taking control of your career during times of uncertainty

Who's the Real Boss?

Regardless of the industry, with many states and countries now in some form of lockdown, the impact that the virus is having on businesses, regardless of what they do, is catastrophic (well, except for the ones that manufacture hand-sanitizer!).

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