What this service is:

The most complete information resource for payroll professionals, the Library provides guidance and regular updates in every area of payroll administration and compliance, and includes hundreds of interactive forms and links to related federal, state, and local sites.

What it helps you do:

• Do your job properly and legally. Get the most timely information on federal and state statutory and regulatory changes that can affect your department and payroll program.
• Streamline your work with instant access to more than a thousand interactive federal, state, and local forms, many of them calculable. Locate new hire forms and procedures for other states where you do business.
• Ensure compliance by referring to full text and clear analysis of the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury and wage-hour regulations, numerous tax treaties, and significant federal employment provisions governing the workplace.
• Answer questions from employees and colleagues. Receive expert guidance on virtually any topic from editors who are recognized authorities in payroll administration. Depend on the perspectives of the Library's Advisory Board to assess developments.
• Make decisions with confidence. Learn how changes in payroll procedures and industry trends will affect your operations. Easy-to-understand explanations of complex issues assist both experienced and novice practitioners.
• Gain exclusive electronic access to the IRS's Employer's Tax Guide, Publication 15, Circular E, cross-referenced and linked to new laws, withholding tables, and more.
• Refer to detailed comparison charts of federal and state laws, including taxability of wages and benefits, and other helpful features exclusive to the Library. Determine whether a new benefit is taxable for federal, state, or local coverage.
• Stay informed with weekly reports on the latest developments affecting payroll departments — federal and state laws, major court decisions, IRS regs and rulings, and Social Security Administration news, plus case studies, practical insights, conference coverage, and more.
• Never miss an important development. E-mail and Web bulletins alert you to late-breaking federal and state payroll news.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print reference material Payroll Administration Guide is updated bi-weekly and indexed quarterly. Print notification Payroll Administration Guide Newsletter is issued bi-weekly and indexed quarterly, cumulating annually.

Web reference material is updated regularly, includes Web notification coverage — Payroll Administration Guide Newsletter and Late-Breaking Payroll Information on the Web — and offers an e-mail update service.

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• Adoption assistance
• Company cars and travel expenses
• Computation of taxes
• Employee records management
• Employee/employment categories
• Federal per diem rates for meals and lodging
• Federal tax coverage rules
• Federal tax returns and deposits
• FICA and FUTA taxes
• Garnishment and child support
• Holidays and leave
• Independent contractors  
• Liability issues
• Magnetic media/electronic filing
• Medical savings accounts
• Minimum wage and overtime rules
• Multistate payroll functions
• New hire reporting
• Moving expense rules
• Payroll practices and procedures
• Reporting and deposit requirements
• Social Security benefits
• State disability insurance, laws, and taxes
• Taxation of cafeteria and 401(k) plans
• Unemployment insurance, laws, and taxes
• Wage-payment and wage-deduction laws
• Withholding of income taxes
• Workers' compensation