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Paycor understands that this is a busy time of year for you. During tax season, use CPA Care as a resource to help you find information on your clients while preparing our mutual clients’ corporate tax returns.
To access the CPA Care Year-End materials, visit www.paycor.com/cpa-year-end/2011.
For more information contact:
CPA Care Advocate
513.719.1300
866.729.2671
cpacare@paycor.com
What Paycor offers you:
Personal concierge service. You’ll get direct access to experts that have answers. And you’ll get the need-to-know information that helps make your job easier.
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A company with the industry’s highest retention rate, thanks to easy-to-use products, immediate access to reports and one-to-one personal service.
How Can CPA Care Help?
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From the CPA Care Resource Center
What’s New for 2012?
- The employee tax rate for social security is 4.2% on wages paid and tips received before March 1, 2012. The employee tax rate for social security increases to 6.2% on wages paid and tips received after February 29, 2012; the... Read More
Save Time with Paycor's Custom Web Reporting
Paycor has developed a product with you in mind. It is a simple and powerful tool that combines all of your Paycor clients’ payroll reports in one place and allows you to create customized reports... Read More
Payroll & Tax Deduction Guide
We understand that payroll and tax deductions can be a complicated subject, so we created this simple, fun infographic with your clients in mind. An infographic is a creative way to share information in a clear and comprehensible... Read More
Custom Web Reporting Can Help You Determine Eligible Tax Credits!
Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
This credit helps small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations afford the cost of covering their employees’ health insurance. To be eligible... Read More
Prompt and Personal Service Benefits Accountant at Year-End
Becky Foster, an accountant with Hayes, Neltner & Schmidt, supports five CPAs at her firm. The firm has 50 clients who use Paycor payroll and HR solutions, yet she doesn’t have... Read More
CPA Care is here to help you meet the 1120 and 1120S filing deadline!
Feeling a little overwhelmed?
Paycor’s CPA Care Advocates are standing by to assist you during this busy time of year. We have created a resource to help you obtain salary... Read More
Extra FUTA Tax Payments due on Form 940 by January 31, 2012
Employers in 20 states are subject to a reduction in FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) credit resulting from unpaid federal loans.
Paycor recovered the FUTA amounts due to the states by performing a onetime adjustment... Read More
Hiring Independent Contractors
The U.S. Department of Labor, IRS, and 11 state agency leaders agreed to improve their efforts to encourage compliance and educate on employee misclassification. This agreement will help ensure that employees receive... Read More
It’s W-2 Time!
Our commitment to our clients is to prepare accurate and timely W-2s. All W-2s and 1099s will be shipped to our clients no later than January 25, 2012. The shipping of each client’s W-2s is dependent on when their last payroll or... Read More
Let Paycor Help You Start the Year Off Right!
The New Year is a time to reflect on the past and move towards new beginnings. Paycor has resources to help bring payroll and HR relief to you and your clients!
Avoid wasting time entering payroll data... Read More
How CPA Care Helped…
“Thanks for your help. We might need some employee specific information when we begin the employee testing, but this will get us started. I really appreciate the CPA Care feature Paycor provides. That really gives you a... Read More
Hold Form Submission Process is Now Closed
The hold form submission process has closed. Please contact CPA Care to discuss any items that require additional payrolls or adjustments in 2011.
Quick Reference Guide for the Paycor W-2
Box 8
Allocated tips that are not included in boxes 1, 3, 5 or 7.
Box 10
Total dependent care benefits that the employer paid or incurred on the employee’s behalf (including amounts from a Section 125 cafeteria... Read More
How CPA Care Helped...
“I had to call Michele Stoy to get some online reports added to one of the clients I have and I thought it was going to be a problem. Well, by the time we hung up the phone, she had already added the reports to the client.... Read More
In the healthcare industry, every moment is critical.
Let Paycor spend time on payroll
There are several challenges in the healthcare industry—let Paycor address those associated with payroll and HR.
Organizations across all industries desire to... Read More
Pennsylvania Act 32
ACT 32 is a Pennsylvania law passed in 2008 that streamlines and standardizes the local earned income tax system. The provisions in ACT 32 become mandatory effective January 1, 2012.
Watch Paycor’s recorded webinar on this... Read More
FUTA Credit Reduction Announced
There are 20 states that have outstanding loans from the federal government dating back to 2009 and earlier. Since these loans were not repaid by November 10, 2011, employers in these jurisdictions will be subject... Read More
Introducing Paycor 12
In the next few weeks, we will be enhancing your Paycor product navigation experience with Paycor 12, a new feature that will allow you to navigate between many of your products without having to return to your Online Services... Read More
Every Detail Counts in the Restaurant Business
The Same is True in Payroll
Employee wages, credit card tips, cash tips, minimum wages, overtime, seasonal help, employee turnover…the list goes on. Anyone who supports clients in the food and beverage... Read More
November Webinars
On November 10 at 11:00 a.m. ET, CPA Care will host a free, 45-minute webinar that will walk you through HR Support Center. HR Support Center is a comprehensive, low-cost, online resource that can save your clients’ time and... Read More
How CPA Care Helped…
“I love my CPA Care specialist because she welcomes my questions and provides immediate answers. I don’t have to bother my clients with questions they won’t even understand – I go straight to CPA Care.”... Read More
Restaurant Employers and Tip Reporting
Are your clients spending too much time documenting their employees’ tips? Paycor can assist your restaurant or beverage establishment clients in the annual tip reporting process.
Watch Paycor’s recorded... Read More
The Social Security wage base will increase to $110,100 for 2012.
For more information, go to http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/cbb.html.
Ohio Minimum Wage to Increase in 2012
Ohio employers will start paying their employees $7.70 per hour beginning January 1, 2012. Tipped employees must be paid an hourly rate of $3.85 per hour. Ohio’s current minimum wage is $7.40 per hour for... Read More
Employer-Provided Health Coverage
In 2010, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed. The Act requires employers to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan.
Top 5 Need-to-Knows about the Health Coverage... Read More
2012 Deferred Compensation Plans
Many other pension plan limit amounts will also increase. For a list of limits, go to www.irs.gov and search COLA Increases for Dollar Limitations on Benefits and Contributions.
Extended CPA Care Hours
CPA Care will have extended hours for the extension deadline of October 17.
Extended Hours
Saturday, October 15: 9 am – 12 am
Sunday, October 16: 9 am – 12 am
Monday, October 17: 8 am – 9 pm
HR Support Center and HR On-Demand Webinar
CPA Care will host a free, 45-minute webinar in November that will walk you through HR Support Center. HR Support Center is a comprehensive, low-cost, online resource that can save your clients’ time... Read More
Employer-Provided Cell Phones Considered Tax-Free Fringe Benefit
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 removed cell phones from the definition of listed property for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2009. On September 14, 2011, the IRS... Read More
American Jobs Act Proposes Payroll Tax Changes
President Obama appeared on national television September 8, 2011 addressing a joint session of Congress to outline a stimulus plan that will create new jobs and stimulate the nation’s stalled economy. This plan is called the... Read More
Paycor’s Free CPA Care Service Brings Relief to CPAs as Tax Extension Deadline Nears
Paycor’s complimentary CPA Care concierge service offers accountants immediate and personal service year round and should be especially helpful as the Sept. 15... Read More
Updated IRS Payroll Tax Forms
IRS released revised Schedule B and D (Form 941). Revisions were primarily for verbiage issues. The release was too late for 2nd quarter filings and will be used beginning 3rd quarter 2011.
IRS provided a rough draft... Read More
Congress to Address Several Payroll-Related Bills
The Business Activity Tax Simplification Act and The Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Specification Act of 2011 would mainly revise how employers deal with employees who work in more than one state.... Read More
Social Security Number Elimination and Reduction Program
As part of taxpayer privacy, the IRS has replaced the masking of individual’s social security number on notices with a bar code for the IRS to scan.
A Night that Counts: Support Accounting for Kids
A Night that Counts was created by the young professionals group at Paycor to raise money for Accounting for Kids. Accounting for Kids, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that serves children by working with the local school... Read More
How CPA Care Helped…
“I have been very pleased with all of the help that Michele and Molly have provided to me. With their assistance, I was able to respond to my clients’ needs much faster.”
– Amy Driscoll,
Yankovich Adelman Johnson... Read More
Paycor Won the 2011 American Business Award for Best Motivational Video
Watch the “Payrollin” video on YouTube at http://bit.ly/qFZRQr.
Extended CPA Care Hours
CPA Care will have extended hours for the corporate extension deadline of September 15.
Extended Hours
Wednesday, September 14: 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 15: 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
401(k) Data Delivered with Care
With Paycor’s 401(k) EDI solution, we will prepare 401(k) information and provide a data file, which can be directly forwarded to your client’s retirement administrator.
Save Valuable Time from Preparing Information... Read More
Things I’ve Learned…(and am still learning).
By Bob Coughlin, CEO Paycor
Quick Tip: “Positive Discontent” – why can’t we just be happy?
Paycor’s fiscal year begins July 1. As our new year begins, we hold meetings to review our progress on... Read More
Mileage Rate Increases
Due to recent increase in gas prices, the IRS increased the standard business and medical/moving mileage rates effective July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.
2011 Mileage Rate Changes
| January 1– June 30 | July 1 – December... Read More |
Beware of Tax Scams
The IRS is encouraging taxpayers to watch for misleading individuals trying to persuade them to file claims for tax credits and rebates. Many of these recent scams have been targeted in the South and Midwest.
For a list of items... Read More
U.S. Treasury Promotes Going Paperless: Mandates Electronic Invoicing
By the end of fiscal year 2012, all Treasury Bureaus will implement the Internet Payment Platform (IPP), an electronice invoice processing solution to improve government efficiency... Read More
FUTA (Federal Unemployment) Rate Change effective July 1, 2011
Congress has announced that the 0.2% FUTA surcharge will not be extended before June 30, 2011. Employers have been required to pay a flat rate of 6.2% on the first $7,000.00 of each employee’s annual wages for FUTA. The 6.2%... Read More
IRS Provides Information on Health Care Reporting
The Affordable Care Act requires employers to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan beginning in 2012. This reporting is mandatory on the 2012 annual Form W-2... Read More
Save Time with Paycor's Custom Web Reporting
Create reports in minutes with this easy-to-use reporting tool that provides access to all payroll and employee data.
Access Information to all of your Clients
This time saving feature allows you to create... Read More
Things I’ve Learned…(and am still learning).
By Bob Coughlin, CEO Paycor
Quick Tip: The Power of One Software Platform
One backend software platform is a strength of Paycor that allows you and our clients to get more for your money. As you probably... Read More
The Hire Act: Business Credit for Retention of Certain Workers
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act for 2010. The key provisions in the Act include the Social Security (Payroll) Tax Exemption... Read More
New Documents Accepted for Form I-9
The Immigration and Nationality Act requires employers to complete an I-9 to verify the identity and authorization to work in the United States on all new hired employees. The final rule, which took effect on... Read More