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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

As an employer, you are responsible for withholding various taxes from employees’ wages. After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay?

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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

As an employer, you are responsible for withholding various taxes from employees’ wages. After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay?

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Your choice: To ditch Social Security tax withholding or not

Business Management Daily

President Trump’s executive order suspending the employee portion of Social Security taxes, issued two weeks ago, left many employers wondering what to do. Then, the Treasury Department offered some clarity on the payroll tax. We’ve spent the better part of this week reading other tax lawyers’ opinions about this.

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What Are Payroll Deductions?

Patriot Software

You know there are deductions to take out of your employees’ paychecks. But, are they pre-tax vs. post-tax deductions? What do you withhold from an employee’s take-home pay? Read on to learn the different deductions you have to take out of each employee’s paycheck. What are payroll deductions?

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Having a Baby? Use Your Pre-Tax Funds to Save

Benefit Resource Inc.

Benefit Resource (BRI) is here to help you use your pre-tax funds to combat some of the costs that come with welcoming your new addition. This allows you to save on monthly premiums while putting tax-free money aside in your HSA. As a bonus, all of your gains will come out pre-tax! Let’s Start from the Beginning.

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Can Payroll Services Handle Direct Deposit?

Patriot Software

Payroll services calculate employees’ wages, taxes and deductions, and take-home pay. […] Read More Direct deposit is a convenient payment method for employees, who receive their paycheck quickly and securely on payday. Most employers handle direct deposit through their payroll software.

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How to Calculate Net Pay for Payroll

Patriot Software

Between taxes and benefit deductions, the employee’s take-home pay could be far from the $50,000 sticker price (cue the sad violin). To find their take-home pay, you need to know how to calculate net pay. Employee salary: $50,000 a year. But you know that’s not what they’re walking away with.

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