In response to changes in federal taxes by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed in December of 2017, the IRS released an early draft of the new 2020 W-4 on May 30th. Read more about the reasons for the change here. This new form will require payroll software and service providers to change [...]
As companies grow and hire more employees, additional compliance burdens often accompany that growth. For example, many employers fear the dreaded 50 employee threshold - for good reason! 50 employees is the magic number that triggers an additional compliance burden for employers. When that 50 employee threshold is reached, employers need to address compliance issues [...]
In early March, the Department of Labor (DOL) Wage & Hour Division issued some proposed changes to the overtime rules. These rules have been relied upon by the payroll industry for several years to determine who can be a salary, exempt employee and who should be paid overtime wages. Back in 2016, the Obama administration [...]
Employer compliance is an ongoing effort that requires preparation and maintenance, and ACA hours tracking can be complicated. Especially for employers who have variable hour employees who require eligibility determination throughout the year. As a reminder, a variable hour employee is one who does not have a set schedule that meets the average of 30 [...]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been in place for several years now and the solutions companies have put in place to manage ACA compliance range from manual spreadsheets to specialty software to outsourcing the whole thing. In the current political climate, many companies hesitate to change solutions, hoping the ACA will disappear. But the [...]
Late last year, word from the IRS was that we could take a sneak peek of the new W-4 in March of this year. Read more here about the information we had at that time. As background, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) – passed in December of 2017 – made significant changes to [...]
If you had any concerns about your 2016 ACA 1095-C forms, we can all take a collective sigh of relief. On the May 2, 2019 Payroll Industry call, the IRS announced that they have completed 99.8% of the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP) penalty notification letters, also known as the dreaded 226J letter, for [...]
If you’re ready to streamline your payroll system while also improving overall security, it’s time to implement a cloud-based payroll system. You might feel like making such a big change is overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Having a payroll system based in the cloud can be just as easy — if not easier [...]
Integrity Data answers the call for a SaaS payroll solution embedded inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with seamless integrations, unmatched functionality and scalable flexibility. Payroll NOW is available for download on Microsoft AppSource. [Lincoln, Illinois – May 2, 2019] For more than 20 years, Integrity Data has been trusted as the leading developer of payroll [...]
Most of the time when you think of an employee benefit, you think of a program that helps you attract and retain employees. It benefits your staff but not really your company. In fact, you might even think of them as an expense. But what if there was an employee benefit that helped both your [...]