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This massive, searchable resource—updated regularly—will give you answers to your pressing payroll questions, help you plan and execute your payroll procedures accurately, and keep your policies legal.
Zero in on your state's specific laws; each month brings you a new update so you don't find yourself following old guidelines.
Here are daily-use resources to help you crunch the numbers, get the paperwork right the first time, and plan ahead according to government guidelines.
This document answers dozens of questions about the finer points of what you do every day. From dealing with meal reimbursements to name changes to loans against a retirement plan, there are solutions here to common—and even highly unusual—problems.
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Payroll Calendar
November 2024: Employer’s business tax calendar
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.
Payroll Today
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: What makes a smoker’s surcharge legal?
HIPAA has always allowed group health plans to impose a smoker’s surcharge on employees’ monthly group health premiums. But there’s always been a catch: The smoking surcharge must be accompanied by a wellness plan, and employees who can’t quit can’t be subject to the surcharge as long as they’re participating in the wellness plan designed to help them to quit.
Payroll Mailbag
In the Payroll Mailbag: September ’24
Questions are still bubbling up regarding the Department of Labor’s salary-level regulations, which required you to raise exempts’ salary to $844 a week on July 1.
Benefits Law
Guidance clarifies student loan 401(k) matches
Beginning with the 2024 plan year, SECURE 2.0, the 2022 401(k) reform law, allows you to make matching contributions into the 401(k) accounts of employees who self-certify that they’re repaying their student loans. Interim guidance issued by the IRS describes the self-certification process and sets other rules.
