Payroll & Taxes Blog

Even in the best of times payroll and related taxes can be a confusing and moving, target for small business owners, with costly (or worse) penalties for getting it wrong.

As a small business owner, hiring your first employee means that it's time to implement a payroll process.

Managing payroll is often a task small business owners aren’t prepared to handle when opening their doors.

There are a few steps that go into getting payroll up and running for your small business. One of those important steps requires you to choose a payroll schedule that will determine when your employees will get paid.

When setting up payroll for your small business the first time, it’s common to feel overwhelmed and make some mistakes.

Hiring employees for your small business for the first time is an exciting process. It allows you to build a team, grow your business, and plan your business goals.

While opening a new small business is an exciting journey, payroll and taxes are undoubtedly less so. Because this is an area that many small business owners don’t initially think about when opening their new business, it’s easy to make tax mistakes.

As a small business owner, you likely spend quite a bit of time number-crunching. Sometimes, that task can get overwhelming.

On the surface, running payroll may sound like a simple task: you put in your employees’ hours and rate or weekly salary, calculate the amount for that payroll, and pay them, right?

It’s a new year, which means new tax changes.

Before you leave the decade behind, here are a few things to keep in mind as you close out your payroll for the year.

Taxes. Your favorite subject right?