Act 32 challenges employers to quickly respond to what is perhaps the largest local income tax restructuring in decades, and some of the most significant of the steps required for compliance—effective Jan. 1, 2012—rest with employers and not their payroll service or software provider. This webinar will help you to identify the full scope of your PA Act project work plan and the team members that are vital to its successful implementation.
“Pennsylvania has for many years had a complex local income tax withholding system. Under the current Earned Income Tax (EIT) collection system, Pennsylvania businesses are required to withhold taxes for more than 2,900 local taxing authorities and remit those taxes to more than 500 Pennsylvania municipalities and school districts … After four years of diligent analysis and input from Pennsylvania’s tax administrators, legislators and businesses, legislation was enacted in 2008 under Act 32 to streamline the EIT tax collection process by reducing the number of local tax collectors to less than 100, resulting in increased uniformity in both tax collection and reporting, and improving tax collection enforcement efforts through more detailed employer reporting of employees living and (or) working in Pennsylvania. (Governor’s Center for Local Government Services, Earned Income Tax Consolidation System Best Practices Report, Dec. 31 2009.) “
Join Debera Salam, Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP, for this timely and informative webinar and learn about:
Debera Salam, Director of Payroll Information and Process Services, Ernst & Young LLP
Debera Salam is the Director of Payroll Information and Process Services for Ernst & Young LLP, where her experience in payroll research, process and audit, publishing and advocacy were applied in the development of Ernst & Young’s Employment Tax Advisory Services strategic consulting approach. As a payroll compliance and process professional, Debera also functions as a subject matter leader on those projects that have a compliance and payroll audit focus, including systems implementations, process improvement, accounts payable interface evaluation for business, relocation and irregular compensation, and internal and external payroll audits. Her broad-based knowledge of all payroll compliance areas, including garnishments and wage-hour, coupled with her experience in federal and state lobbying initiatives, give her a unique ability to coordinate a diverse range of payroll consulting projects. Among her many activities in the payroll industry, she is currently advisory board member for Research Institute of America’s Payroll Guide, and acting advisory board member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers.