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Advantages of Weekly Payroll vs. Monthly Payroll

  From the moment a company starts hiring employees, it must decide what payroll schedule to follow. While this may sound like an easy decision, there are many options to consider. Early on, you will...

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What to Know About Payroll Before Hiring a Nanny

Payroll may not be the first thing on your mind when hiring a nanny. However, it is definitely something that you need to think about sooner rather than later. Managing payroll for your nanny does not...

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5 Things to Know Before Hiring an Independent Contractor

No matter if you use the term independent contractor, freelancer or consultant, there are things you need to know before making a hiring decision. Before we go any further, it is important to note that...

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The W-2 Blueprint

We know that filling out a W-2 for your employees can be about as much fun as a root canal. All those tiny boxes that are hard to tell apart. A bunch of obscure rules you’re supposed to know. It’s easy...

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What is in my W-2?

So many boxes, numbers, letters. Lots of blank spaces with tiny type above them asking about things like wages, Social Security, Medicare, tips, etc. What does it all mean? What goes in these boxes...

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Five Tax Benefits Small Business Owners Should Consider Before the New Year

Our parent company, Paychex Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource and benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, has identified five tax tips that you can take...

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7 Payroll Tips on the W-4

The W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, is a form employees must complete so that employers can withhold the correct federal income tax. It’s important that it be filled out promptly and...

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The 1099 Blueprint

Independent contractors and freelancers are becoming more and more of an important part of a small business owner’s payroll. Data from our SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard has shown the percentage...

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Another Handy Video Guide to the W-2

We’ve been working hard to give you as much information as we can on the W-2 form. We wanted to follow that up with a quick video slide presentation you can share with your friends. The post Another...

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Is a Payroll Service Worth the Cost for Your Small Business?

Now is a time of year when many businesses are considering signing up for a payroll service. Perhaps you’ve been doing payroll yourself and you’re tired of it, or you’ve hired on more employees, or...

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Pre-employment Testing: 5 Mistakes to Avoid

Some companies realize the importance of pre-employment screening. Others continue to wonder why this has become so common over the past few years. Regardless of your industry or how many people you...

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Putting Employees on the Payroll: 6 Steps

Making a decision to hire an employee is the easy part, in some ways. There’s a lot to do before that proud new hire receives a first paycheck. Here, according to the Small Business Administration, are...

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5 Tips for Corporate Tax Time – Deadline March 15th

Most people feel the dread of tax time as April approaches, but for small business owners, that tax crunch is happening right now. With corporate taxes due March 15th, the 30 million small business...

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Top 5 Nanny Payroll Mistakes

As our lives seemingly becoming busier and busier with work, family and all of the logistical complications that come with these responsibilities, having a reliable nanny is a necessity for many...

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Summly App Founder Joins Yahoo! Payroll at 17

The only payroll most of us were on at age 17 was at an ice cream shop or the next door neighbor’s, for mowing his lawn. Summly app founder Nick D’Aloisio has joined Yahoo!’s payroll after they...

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Nanny Payroll: Be in the Know

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1.3 million people work as nannies or child caregivers in the United States today. The Bureau also states that the median pay for these...

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The IRS’ Home-Office Tax Deductions

So with your laptop, cell phone and padded chair at the head of the table, your dinning room sees more conference calls than dinner parties these days. Does this mean you can write the room off as a...

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Top 10 Payroll Mistakes: Part 1

Payroll is a task every small business owner has to deal with, one way or the other. It’s often a tedious burden and the complexity of it sometimes leads to mistakes. In talking to our customers, we’ve...

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Top 10 Payroll Mistakes: Part 2

Last week we brought you the first five in our Top 10 Payroll Mistakes series. This week, as part of our ongoing Payroll Tip of the Day on Twitter, we finish the series with five more key payroll...

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What is the Fair Labor Standards Act and Why Does it Matter?

There are certain employment frameworks we all seem to take for granted. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) is a perfect example. Passed in 1938 by Congress and signed by the President, the FLSA...

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