Corporate Payroll Services

New Minimum Wage Rates for 2018

Minimum wage rates are increasing in many states this year.  Unless otherwise noted, the minimum wage rates in bold are updated rates effective January 1, 2018.  States with no change in minimum wage rates are not bolded. Alabama: No state minimum wage.  Federal...

2018 Income Tax Withholding Tables Delayed

Social Security Maximum Taxable Earnings Updated…Again Due to potential tax changes currently being considered in Congress, the IRS has indicated that guidance for the 2018 tax year, which includes the payroll tax tables, will be issued later than normal.  Since both...

4 Smart Reasons to Integrate Your 401(k) NOW

Employees are 15 times more likely to save if they have access to a payroll-deducted savings plan at work.* Using CoPilot 401(k) from PAi can help your employees save for retirement, and because it’s integrated with Corporate Payroll, there is less work for you....

Reduce Turnover – It’s Worth It

Losing your best employee is like a punch in the gut for a small business owner.  But with fierce competition for the best people, how can you compete?  Lost productivity and time spent landing a replacement are painful, but the overall cost of losing a good employee...

When is a $10,000 Check Bad News?

Imagine peering into your mailbox and finding a check made out to you for $10,000.  Are you: 1) Happy or 2) Not happy  Most would say “happy.”  It’s $10,000.  How could you not be happy? For starters, some hope for a bigger check, perhaps from some sort of sweepstakes...

New Email Scam Targets Payroll, HR Professionals

If you received an email from “the boss” requesting a PDF of the 2016 W-2s and earnings summary of all staff for quick review, would you send it? The Internal Revenue Service issued a News Release on January 25 warning about an email scam that uses a...

Extra Pay Period in This Year?

If your company pays weekly or bi-weekly, will you have an extra check date this year?  In other words, if your company pays weekly, will you pay your employees 52 times this year or 53?  Likewise, if your company pays bi-weekly, will you pay your employees 26 times...

Summary of IRS National Security Week Tips

The week of December 5-9 was National Tax Security Awareness Week.  The IRS, along with payroll processors, tax return preparers and software firms provided tips to alert taxpayers to security threats, including identity theft and tax refund fraud. The weeklong series...

No, it’s not the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown…

It’s the Social Security Administration! If you’ve received a “No-Match Letter” from the Social Security Administration (SSA), there’s no reason to say, “Good grief!” It does mean that an employee’s name and social security number (SSN) do not match in the...

Beware: Latest Fake IRS Letter Scam

The Internal Revenue Service released a new Tax Tip about fake tax bill notices related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA.) The scam involves fraudulent versions of notice CP2000 for tax year 2015 and may be received via email, as an attachment, or by mail. You’ll be...