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Is Payroll Confidentiality a Potential Hazard for Your Business?
One of our new clients explained his reason for outsourcing his payroll during one of the initial meetings he had with me here at The Payroll Department. We often hear how small business owners are...
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Paid vs. Unpaid Internships: What Are the Regulations?
Internships can be beneficial to both the student and employers. The student gets the opportunity to explore a career interest, apply what they’ve learned in the classroom in a professional setting and...
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Outsourcing Payroll is like Having a Life Vest
As we all know, changes in the world of small business are not only inevitable, they are also constant. More than likely, if you are an entrepreneur, you already have your hands full, just trying to...
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Why put your payroll – and business – at risk?
Are you an employer or employee who likes to get that paycheck in your hand every pay period? There are people who like that trip to the bank to make deposits. However, they may be putting themselves –...
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Payroll Leap Year…and Other Payroll Oddities
Every four years, the calendar offers up a dilemma to the world: How exactly will you spend that extra day in the wonderful blustery gray month of February? Well, actually leap year doesn’t really...
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The Payroll Department Opens a New Office in Zionsville
It’s happening! I am opening a new sales location for The Payroll Department in Zionsville! As all of my clients already know, The Payroll Department recently completed a complete conversion to a new...
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It’s Just a Number, Right? Not to the IRS!
As an employer, whether you are a big or small business, you have the responsibility to hire employees who are authorized to work in the United States. One of the ways many employers ensure workers are...
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Why put your payroll – and business – at risk?
Are you an employer or employee who likes to get that paycheck in your hand every pay period? There are people who like that trip to the bank to make deposits. However, they may be putting themselves –...
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Words Small Business Owners Don’t Want to Hear: Pay Back Wages
One thing a small business owner never wants to hear in connection with his payroll is BACK PAY. Don’t be confused, Back Pay is not when you give an employee a raise and make the start date in the past...
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Outsourcing Payroll is like Having a Life Vest
As we all know, changes in the world of small business are not only inevitable, they are also constant. More than likely, if you are an entrepreneur, you already have your hands full, just trying to...
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What Workers Have to Say About Payroll Issues
You may have heard of National Payroll Week. Started in 1996 by the American Payroll Association, it celebrates “many things important to each of us who work” according to their website,...
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Small Business Barter Transactions Are Separate from Payroll
Entrepreneurs and small business owners, especially in the start-up stages, learn quickly how to balance getting things done with income. Every business needs actual cash coming in the door, but...
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Botched Payroll Makes For a Bad Day!
You know you’re having a bad day when a mistake you made gets covered by the local newspaper. Not exactly the kind of publicity you want! As this article reports, the town of Windham, Connecticut,...
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Employee Record Retention and Destruction: Make Sure Your Business Is in...
Business owners accumulate substantial volumes of employee records like employment applications, performance reviews, payroll records and disciplinary actions. At the beginning of the year, when many...
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The Truth about Payroll Taxes
In the politically charged atmosphere during the couple of years preceding a presidential election, the topic of taxes – and payroll taxes in particular – takes center stage. It is payroll taxes that...
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How to Take a Proactive and Diligent Defense Against Payroll Fraud
What do you know about payroll fraud? Have you given it much consideration? Payroll fraud is a crime in which employees use the payroll system to steal money from a company, and it does happen. In...
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Minimum Wage – more than meets the eye
Minimum wage is a hot topic in the media these days, but we aren’t going to debate increasing the minimum wage to $15. The amount may be under debate, but the one thing that doesn’t change is the fact...
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Employers Must Pay for Short Employee Breaks
As an employer, you set the policies for managing your small business and your employees. But you better make sure your payroll policies follow government rules. Otherwise, you may have to pay back...
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Are You Opening Up Your Small Business to Payroll Fraud?
According to an article in Forbes by Matthew Garrett, payroll fraud is a problem. A really big problem. He says that 27% of all businesses are the victims of payroll fraud. And, small business owners...
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Things to Know About Withholding County Taxes
A tax is a tax is a tax, right? Well, as anyone who has ever read a single paragraph of the state or federal tax code knows, there is rarely a simple answer to any tax-related question. If you’re a...
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