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Overtime

I am looking for some statistics. We pay overtime based on all hours paid (not hours worked) over 40 for the week. Therefore, if an employee works Monday - Thursday and has a vacation day (or holiday, sick day, bereavement etc.) on Friday and then works Saturday, we will pay 8 hours as overtime. We have been paying this way for 30+ years.

I know that most companies do not pay this way. We are considering a change, however, I need to provide statistical data that will indicate the percentage of companies that use 'worked hours' instead of 'paid hours' for determining overtime. Is there any such data available? I have not been able to find any.

JPayroll

Career Change

I recently began doing payroll for my employees. I've discovered I really enjoy this type of work. I have a bachelor's in psychology and a masters in counselling.

I want to begin doing payroll for a career. What certifications or classes do I need? I have been looking at virtual classes on APA Especially the essentials for payroll, I am currently calculating everything that the course description includes. Additionally, Is it possible to do payroll for other businesses without a certification?

Thanks in advance! I appreciate any insight.

Ashleylarge7

Re: Wrong State Tax taken

Agreed with David. You need to first determine if the employee is working in MA. If you are a NH employer with no nexus in MA, you may not have a responsibility to withhold MA tax. Same with ME tax. If the employee is working in MA you must withhold. If the employee is not working in MA: The employee should have told you of their move. You have the option of creating a W2c for the employee. In which case you will need to file amended returns and will incur a penalty for late deposit to MA. The employee could file both ME and MA and deal with the states in getting a refund from one and paying the other.

acl1118

Re: HR entered wrong filing status on W-4

When you filed your tax returns for those years the taxes withheld were reported then compared to your tax liability and any variance reported on your federal and/or state tax returns.

acl1118

Re: Sales Rep taxed in different states

Here are a couple of links that may help

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/wsc/withholding.shtml

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/filertn/nonresidents-part-year-residents.shtml#residency_status

jadegurl

2018 withholding tables

Our Vendor just made the update of the revised tax tables available to us on last week. I'm just curious when everyone else was able to implement the revised tables for your company and how are you handling employee questions regarding the changes?
Did you send out a memo stating when they would see the changes reflected on their pay check or are you just handling them individually?

jadegurl

Re: Wrong State Tax taken

Worked or lived? Those are two very different things in most states. I do not know the rules for either state, or NH for that matter, but you need to find out what the specific rules are. CA (my state) for example does not care what state someone lives in. CA taxes are handled by the employer, period. If there are any other state problems in question, they are solely the employee's problem.

More specifically, the employer is always legally responsible for where the employer works. If you get that wrong, that legally is on you. Where the employee lives, legally may or may not be your issue (check the law of the states involved). If you really have some responsibility for the Lived state, then you have a broken system that you need to fix. Employees rarely look at their pay stubs and rarely notify anyone about anything. So, no kidding when you said they did not tell you. That is sort of an "of course" they did not. There is an expectation from 90% of employees that payroll has mental powers and never needs to told anything.

Do what the law requires. No more. No less.

David Warren

Under reported FICA

An employee's FICA did not get reported for partial year 2017. I did not discover this until 2/1/18. I am now correcting the 3rd and 4th quarter's 941's using 941X. I understand it is the employer's responsibility to pay both portions of FICA/Medicare. I also read that if we need to recover the employee's portion before the end of the calendar year. That did not happen. Now at this point how do I correct his W-2? FYI - I've already sent out W-2s and reported to IRS. Working with the W-2C, If I were to add the employee's portion to the taxable wages, then the due amount for FICA goes up.....!! At this point do we ask the employee to pay outside of payroll to pay his portion or can we withhold the extra tax in payroll? Any insight on this would be awesome!! Thank you in advance.

cindel

Re: Tax time!

Unfortunately this is very state specific, and states often have rules not requiring POAs and things at a certain dollar amount. The keys are:

Are you sure the employee died?
Everything paid prior to death is vanilla W-2. Everything after death is complicated, I am thinking 1099 and "Estate of ,,," being the payee, and maybe FICA turning off at some point. IRS pub 15 spells out the federal rules, but the states are all over the place.
Nothing said over the phone counts. If you are going to give a W2 or 1099 to anyone, make them sign for it. Spell out that they are are claiming that they are the lawful recipient of the form. Even if someone else later says the form should have gone to them, you can prove that you made a good faith effort.

David Warren