Michele Bossart

Every year, you are required to send Form W-2 to employees by the January 31 Form W-2 filing deadline. Hopefully, those forms will get to your employees. But, some forms might come back to you as undeliverable, especially if you have incorrect employee addresses on file. What should you do with Forms W-2 returned to […]

Are all of your employees eligible to receive overtime pay? Some employees are exempt from overtime pay and minimum wage laws. Exempt employee qualifications are determined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In order to correctly run payroll, you need to be familiar with exempt employees. What is an exempt employee?  

“How do I do payroll?” That’s probably not the first question you asked when you decided to start a business—it probably wasn’t even your 50th question. But if you’re going to hire employees, you will need to know how to do payroll. Running payroll goes far beyond multiplying employee hours by the hourly rate and handing over […]

Now that you’re making payroll tax deposits via the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, you may wonder: “What happens if I lose that pesky EFTPS PIN number?” It just happened to me. I misplaced the EFTPS notice with my assigned PIN number. I couldn’t log in to make my payroll tax deposit without the PIN. […]

The term “regular hours” can mean several different things, but most often refers to the usual hours that employers expect their employees to work.  When an employer runs payroll, they usually must select from several different hours types: regular hours, overtime hours, holiday hours, etc.