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Critical compliance updates and best practices in the industry
Form W-4: Understanding Tax Withholding
The W-4, or “Employee’s Withholding Certificate” is the IRS document completed by employees and submitted to employers, indicating how much to withhold from paychecks for employee taxes. This introductory session will examine the intricacies of the form and it’s surrounding processes to gain a better understanding of the overall effects on year-end processes, with best practices to simplify tax withholding for employers.
Six Ways to Better Serve Your Employees’ Verification Needs
Verification of employment and income is key to your employees during important life events such as buying a house or car, renting an apartment, securing financial loans, or applying for government programs or assistance.
Key Developments Impacting HR in 2024
Every year, employers are charged with staying compliant with changing federal, state, and local regulatory and legislative happenings. 2024 is no different! Having a hybrid workforce with employees all over the U.S. can particularly compound the difficulties of tracking key developments for which HR is held accountable when it comes to managing a workforce. Topics will include E-Verify, year-end reporting, unemployment modernization and fraud, and 2024 legislative updates. Watch our on-demand for an insightful one-hour webinar covering a broad range of developments that will impact you and your workforce compliance.
Employee Retention Credit: Separating Fact from Fiction
This webinar is ideal for CPAs, accounting professionals, and tax practitioners who are being inundated with Employee Retention Credit requests from their clients. Over the past three years, your clients have been subject to endless ERC marketing, as well as confusing and conflicting information online, including on the IRS website itself. We will discuss the common questions that accounting professionals receive from their clients, and will cover how you can help your clients sort out fact from fiction. We will provide an overview of the most common client misperceptions, and how to best navigate those concerns. We will explain the current state of IRS activity with respect to the Employee Retention Credit, and what that activity could mean for the program moving forward.
Employee Retention Credit: Separating Fact from Fiction
A new proposal in Congress has the potential to move the ERC filing deadline to as early as Jan 31. To learn if you are eligible for this credit from real experts, please join us as we discuss the ERC and separate fact from fiction.
Seven Strategies to Reduce Payroll Tax
Employers must navigate through a complex environment of federal, state and local payroll taxes. It’s an ongoing challenge to reduce payroll tax liability and internal costs, but it’s especially important to re-evaluate now as 2023 closes out and planning is underway to boost EBITDA in 2024. In this webinar, you will learn seven strategies to reduce your payroll taxes in order to help you streamline your tax processes, eliminate overpayments and increase compliance.
Form W-2 101: What Employers Need to Know
Welcome to the world of W-2, a required form for reporting wages paid to an employee and items withheld over the course of the year. Form W-2 has been in use since 1944 but can still cause complications for employers trying to establish a streamlined process that improves compliance. This introductory webinar will introduce you to the ins and outs of one of our most familiar federal forms and delve into key elements of the W-2. We will discuss how the form differs from 1099 forms, possible penalties for non-compliance, upcoming changes and so much more.
Five Ways to Better Manage Compliance for Your Hybrid Workforce
Managing compliance requirements can be a constant for employers, especially when you add the complexities of a remote or hybrid workforce. Tracking each states’ differing and evolving HR-oriented requirements, tax regulations and forms presentation calls for the right combination of people, knowledge, processes, and technologies to overcome the challenges posed by a workforce in motion. Our expert will explore these challenges and offer best practices to overcome them.
Simplify ACA and W-2 Year-End Reporting
Year-end can be a challenging time for tax and payroll professionals. Their heavy workload includes numerous reporting requirements such as Affordable Care Act (ACA) & W-2 Tax Statements. Rather than merely survive this busy time of year, there are steps employers can take to streamline processes while also improve compliance. We will review ACA processes at both the Federal and state levels and delve into reasons the process continues to pose challenges for employers with ways to help solve those challenges. We will also cover how to efficiently manage the W-2 process to ensure compliance and employee satisfaction.
ACA Reporting for 2023: What to Know and How to Prepare
Year-end is a very busy season for payroll, benefits, tax and HR teams with numerous requirements and additional responsibilities added to everything else they do. The good news is employers can take advantage of best practices specifically around complex ACA reporting requirements. Let’s help you find ways to improve the compliance and efficiency of your ACA reporting process to increase productivity, overcome state ACA challenges and ensure timely delivery of ACA statements to your employees.
The New Form I-9 & Remote Verifications: Latest Updates and Q&A
The new Form I-9 is finally here with key changes that may affect employer compliance and a long-awaited permanent remote verification process. In the fast-paced world of employment eligibility verification, staying up-to-date is key. In this webinar, we will delve into challenges and experiences with the new I-9 and processes since the launch. learn the benefits and potential hurdles of the alternative procedure for E-Verify employers to remotely examine employee documents. From virtual document reviews to creative ways of keeping the process engaging, we've seen it all this summer!
The New Form I-9: Your Guide to Recent Changes and Updates
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) periodically releases new versions of Form I-9 to ensure compliance with changing regulations and requirements, and there are important updates coming in 2023. Employers must use the most current version of the form to maintain compliance, which means understanding what these new changes require and how it may impact their Form I-9 process.
How to Calculate your Unemployment Tax Rate to Control Costs
The 2024 tax rate season is around the corner and four states are scheduled to issue their new tax rates in a few months. Each state will calculate their rate differently, so it’s important for employers to understand how to anticipate their upcoming unemployment tax rate, especially if they operate in more than one of these states.
WOTC 101: Generate Tax Credits with Your Recruiting Process
The hiring process can be complicated even with every effort made to simplify and streamline the experience. For this reason, some employers avoid the Work Opportunity Tax Credit because it’s seen as another hurdle between a potential candidate and filling a vacant position. However, WOTC can bring in valuable dollars to an organization for qualifying new employees. This webinar explores the benefit of this powerful tax credit and how to implement a process for claiming it without affecting your candidate experience.
How to Maintain Onboarding Compliance in a Shifting Landscape
Compliance requirements are increasingly complicated due to hybrid workforces. Different forms are required for new hires in each jurisdictions, and HR teams must stay on top of new changes or risk costly penalties. Learn how to establish compliant procedures to track laws affecting onboarding, understand what forms are required, and learn how to monitor for changes to existing forms.
How to Streamline Your Verification Fulfillment Process
Employment verification requests can disrupt HR departments. Releasing this sensitive data introduces risk yet speed is key as this affects employees’ important life moments. Establishing a process for efficiently responding to requests helps HR teams and delivers a better experience to employees. Learn the different types of verification requests, and how Experian provides a fast, secure and compliant solution.
Mastering Form I-9 Compliance: An Introduction to the Fundamentals
Employment Eligibility Form I-9 must be completed for every employee hired in the U.S. and is enforced by costly penalties when failing to comply with requirements. Due to the complicated nature of Form I-9 and evolving rules and regulations, each employer should thoroughly understand the form and its requirements with a plan in place to effectively manage their compliance process for new hires. In this webinar, hear from Experian Employer Services experts Gordon Middleton, Sr. Product Intelligence Analyst, and Vijay Thakkar, I-9 & E-Verify Compliance subject matter expert, covering.
- When Form I-9 is required
- Who must complete Form I-9
- Tips for maintaining compliance
How to Have a Successful Internal & External I-9 Audit
One of the best ways to improve I-9 compliance is by mastering internal and external audits. Employers should consider following a checklist of necessary actions that can reduce errors and improve the efficiency of their I-9 management process. Jeremy Sedrick, Director, Pre-employment Services, and Vijay Thakkar, I-9 & E-Verify Compliance Expert, will cover this checklist of actions for conducting successful internal and external I-9 audits. Join this webinar for an interactive session where you can get answers to your I-9 compliance questions.
Busted: Don't Fall for These Top 5 ERC Myths
Are you struggling to maximize your ERC? Join Adam Taplinger and Matt Kelley for a webinar where they will bust 5 myths about claiming the ERC. Make sure you haven’t fallen for one of these and learn to avoid common misconceptions to maximize your credit.