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Lunch and Learn
The Lunch and Learn Series is a group of five 60-minute webinars to strengthen your payroll knowledge and professional skills. Topics include: Payroll Accounting, Final Pay: What Must Be included, Interacting with Multiple Generations, Skillful Collaboration, and The Intricate Art of Juggling Sick Leave.
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Payroll System Selection and Implementation
This course will lead you though the multiple steps organizations use to select the correct system or technology. You will learn the steps required to successfully implement the system from developing the project plan through to supporting the system after go-live.
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Paytrain Fundamentals
This product is ideal for new payroll professionals, those who support the payroll industry, and those who are preparing for FPC certification.
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APA’s Guide to Local Payroll Taxes
This product provides information on the different types of local payroll taxes that payroll departments must comply with, including city service fees; city, county, and school district income taxes; occupational privilege taxes and license fees; payroll expense taxes; and mass transit taxes.
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USCIS Extends Comment Period for Form I-9
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will allow the public an additional 30 days to comment on its proposal to extend the current version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The comment period now ends on July 5.
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Texas Paycard Bill Becomes Law With Support From APA
Effective September 1, 2019, Texas will permit the use of payroll cards and allow employers to make electronic payment the default method of paying wages. APA has expressed its support for this paycard legislation [H.B. 2240, L. 2019].
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IRS Releases Draft Instructions for 2020 Income Tax Withholding
The IRS released a draft of the new 2020 Publication 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods, which will be used to figure federal income tax withholding using the newly revised draft of Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate. APA plans to submit comments on both.
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Compliance – Hot Topics
Find out what compliance topics payroll professionals are focusing
on this year.
MAY 2019
Compliance TV
In this edition:
- IRS plans an early release draft of the 2020 Form W-4
- SSA is sending out no-match letters
- New York State implements new wage reporting requirements
