Compliance Matters

Employers continue to struggle with how to accurately capture employee tax withholding elections given the reality that the hybrid workforce is here to stay. On this episode of Compliance Matters, we sit down with Michael Orton, from Experian Employer Services, to discuss the latest insights on how the remote workforce is impacting payroll tax compliance, including key challenges and solutions for complying with current withholding rules.

There has been a lot of talk recently regarding tax credits and their use by federal, state and local governments to incentivize targeted economic activity. But not all the news has been positive. Popular tax credit programs and unfortunate behavior by both taxpayers and tax vendors have highlighted the risks of unethical practices when claiming these valuable credits. On this episode of Compliance Matters, we discuss the difference between ethical and unethicalpractices related to corporate tax credits and what employers should know to avoid any missteps.

On this episode, we sit down with Rick Pinkerman, Founder & CEO of NOTICENINJA, to discuss the world of tax notice management – what it is, why it’s needed and the major impact it can have on an employer’s ability to remain in compliance. We’ll dive into the latest trends and end with strategies you can leverage to help manage or even reduce the number of notices you have to handle.

While the pandemic has given employees newfound flexibility of where they work, it’s made employers’ job of ensuring proper employee tax withholding more difficult. On this episode of Compliance Matters, we address the new workforce realities, the impact on payroll practices and how employers should respond.

ACA reporting season is here. Make sure you are ready with all the details on the latest ACA developments—including state ACA reporting requirements. On this podcast, we cover the deadlines and timing for ACA reporting, best practices for ensuring you remain in compliance, and how to avoid some of the most common issues we see when working with over 600 employers for ACA reporting.

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring individuals from certain targeted groups who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment. The WOTC program incentivizes workplace diversity and facilitates access to good jobs for American workers.

In this podcast, we sit down with LaRae Pieroni, Chief Service and Operations Officer at Tax Credit Co., to discuss the current state of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program and what you need to know to ensure your company is in compliance.

Earned wage access goes by many names, including on-demand pay and early wage access. But they all refer to the same thing – giving employees access to wages they have earned but not yet been paid on. In today’s highly competitive job economy, modern payroll benefits, like earned wage access, have become increasingly popular. In this podcast, we interview Brian Slowik, co-founder of rapid! PayCard, for his insights on the rising popularity of earned wage access and to discuss how EWA, among other trends, are transforming and modernizing payroll.  

Employers were given flexibility during the pandemic when managing I-9 employee verification. Yet, as employees return to the office, employers will need to complete verification retroactively for all employees hired during the pandemic while also supporting completion of I-9s for all new hires who now are working remotely. On this episode of Compliance Matters, we discuss the latest developments and steps employers need to take to ensure I-9 compliance, including updates that should be made to your onboarding process.

Getting employee onboarding right was challenging even before the pandemic. Now HR teams have to conduct onboarding and have employees complete all necessary compliance tasks with a hybrid workforce. In this podcast, we discuss some of the key lessons learned from the pandemic and what employers should do to ensure they meet all onboarding compliance requirements.