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Leap year! How to handle 27 biweekly payrolls in 2020

Business Management Daily

1 payday back into 2020, you’d still have 27 biweekly pay periods, this time in 2021. Hourly-paid nonexempts are impacted only to the extent of withholding and deductions. This avoids the problem, but many payroll systems aren’t set up to deal with these fractions. Employees’ benefits deductions and allowances (e.g.,

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If You’re Paid Biweekly, You’ll Probably Get an Extra Paycheck in 2020

HR Digest

It seems pretty straightforward – except that every 11 or 12 years, because of our calendar system and leap years, there are actually 27 pay periods in the year. Does this mean you’ll get an extra paycheck in 2020? Does this mean you’ll earn more than your annual salary in 2020? This means that gross pay would be 3.7%

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How to comply with the 2020 W-4 and withholding changes

Business Management Daily

1—all pre-2020 withholding-allowance based W-4s and the 2020 W-4, which is shaping up to be entirely different. The IRS has recently released the second drafts of the 2020 W-4 and Pub. 2020 Form W-4. The IRS released the second draft of the 2020 W-4 in mid-August. Instead, the draft is built on five “steps.”

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Single Touch Payroll Phase 2: What to expect

Ascender

By 1 July 2019, all businesses across Australia should be compliant to STP regardless of their total headcount, requiring huge efforts from employers and payroll solutions providers to work together to prepare their payroll data and ensure their payroll systems are STP-enabled for smooth compliance.

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Buyer’s guide to earned wage access schemes

Employee Benefits

Via these schemes, employees can choose to be paid for a portion of work that they have already done, with employers setting a threshold, usually at about 25% to 50% of earned wages, at a time that works for them, while the employer continues to run a normal payroll cycle. EWA schemes tend to be offered in two ways.

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New W-4: 12 frequently asked questions on employer compliance

Business Management Daily

As if 2020 hasn’t been enough of a whirlwind, on January 1, 2020, the IRS issued a new form W-4, leading to more than nine months of questions and confusion from both employees and employers. Why did the 2020 W-4 change? The 2020 Form W-4 changed to simplify the form and offer a more transparent and accurate withholding system.

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Single Touch Payroll is getting a facelift

Ascender

By 1 July 2019, all businesses across Australia should be compliant to STP regardless of their total headcount, requiring huge efforts from employers and payroll solutions providers to work together to prepare their payroll data and ensure their payroll systems are STP-enabled for smooth compliance.

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