January 2018 - Accounting Software News

Uncertainty at IRS Mirrors Longstanding Tension about Payroll Withholding

2018-01-11 - by Deanna Fletcher

A lot of payroll accountants have been impatiently waiting for the IRS to update their tax tables for the purposes of payroll withholding and calculating employees’ paychecks. As a consequence …

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