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Managing Vendor Partnerships
Encourage long-term partnerships with your vendors using the knowledge learned from in-depth discussions on building the proper team, relationship management, contract negotiations, vendor scorecard, service level agreements, advisory boards, and much more!
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Garnishments Forum
This class provides a detailed overview of both federal and state garnishment laws and their impact on the payroll process. Learn which order has priority when multiple orders are received, how to handle out-of-state orders, and how to calculate the amount to withhold from the employee's pay.
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Guide to Global Payroll Management eBook
This eBook consolidates in one text the critical compliance guidelines vital to those responsible for managing and administering payrolls across international borders. Included is clear, current, and accurate information on international benefits, wage and tax withholding, and reporting requirements.
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Payroll Practice Fundamentals eBook
This eBook is ideal for those new to the payroll profession. The entire text covers the content outline for the Fundamental Payroll Certification exam and includes a practice exam.
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SSA Outlines BSO Upgrades for the 2019 Filing Season and Beyond
On July 5, during the IRS’s payroll industry call, Scott Pederson, a Program Analyst in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of Electronic Services and Technology, provided an overview of some of the changes that SSA has made to its Business Services Online (BSO) suite of services for the 2019 filing season. He also outlined some of some of the changes that SSA would like to make for future years.
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New York Tax Department Issues Guidance on New Employer Compensation Expense Tax
The New York Department of Taxation and Finance (DTF) has issued guidance on the new Employer Compensation Expense Tax. It is an optional, employer-paid tax that is being phased in over three years beginning in January 1, 2019. The deadline for an employer to opt-in for 2019 is December 1, 2018 [DTF, TSB-M-18(1)ECEP, Employer Compensation Expense Program, 7-3-18].
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Payroll’s Digital Transformation: Keeping Up or Being Left Behind?
According to a recent survey, most business functions are taking advantage of modern technology to migrate from outdated systems, better known as the digital transformation. But for many payroll teams, this doesn’t seem to be the case. For nearly 29% of payroll professionals, their payroll solution is 10 or more years old—meaning it was deployed around the same time the world was being introduced to Apple’s iPhone for the very first time in 2007.
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Compliance – Hot Topics
Find out what compliance topics payroll professionals are focusing
on this year.
JUNE 2018
Compliance TV
In this edition:
- IRS revises Publication 1494
- DOL clarifies whether lump-sum payments are earnings for garnishments
- Virginia repeals obsolete new-hire reporting requirements
