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Sick Pay: Employer's Rights and Responsibilities


Thursday, October 24, 2013
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Product Code - PYAU01
Speaker(s): Jerri Langer, Esq., COKALA Tax Information Reporting Solutions, LLC
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Coordinating sick pay with your providers and staying in compliance with the mirage of tax reporting requirements can be difficult at best, if not downright agonizing. What are your reporting responsibilities? When is sick pay subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes? How do you calculate how much is taxable to the employee? What records should you be keeping? And, most importantly, who handles the all the withholdings and the W-2 reporting?

The IRS has announced it is changing sick pay reporting for 2014. Learn what the new requirements might be. Both the IRS and the SSA are getting very testy these days when your 941 totals do not add up to your W-2 reports and vice versa. Very large federal assessments are being sent out and many relate to handling third party sick pay.

More states and municipalities are requiring paid sick leave. Some states are also becoming very aggressive on sick payments and they require different treatment from the federal rules.

Learning Objectives: This session will give you what you need to know when handling compliance responsibilities associated with your sick pay arrangements. Join noted payroll consultant Jerri LS Langer, with Cokala Tax Reporting Solutions, as she covers hot topics in handling sick pay for 2013 and 2014. In this session you will learn:
•What is sick pay? What isn't sick pay?
•Every 3rd party contract is different. What do I need to know about my sick pay insurance contract to report correctly?
•What are the different types of 3rd party arrangements?
•When is the insurance company my agent?
•Why does it matter who is the agent?
•Income tax withholding on sick pay: which sick payments are exempt and which are subject?
•Social Security, Medicare and FUTA responsibilities differ from income tax responsibilities: which sick pay is exempt and which is subject?
•How do I complete Form 941?
•How do I complete Forms W-2 and W-3 and when do I use the W-2 recap form? How are the requirements changing for 2014?
•Jerri will also cover some of the states that vary from federal rules and update us on jurisdictions that now require paid sick leave.

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Jerri Langer, Esq., COKALA Tax Information Reporting Solutions, LLC

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Jerri Langer, Esq.
COKALA Tax Information Reporting Solutions, LLC

Jerri Langer is a nationally recognized information reporting and withholding consultant who provides a wide range of tax advisory services to many Fortune 500 companies around the world. She is a founding member of the Cokala Tax Group, an advisory services firm offering experienced, efficient and practical help in meeting obligations for tax withholding, payee documentation, tax information reporting, and related issues including income classification.

She is a twice past member of the IRS Commissioner’s Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC); previously serving in 2009 - 2011 and earlier in 1999-2000. Prior to Cokala, she served as a Director in Balance Consulting, an organization specializing in tax reporting and withholding compliance; and earlier as chief tax compliance officer of ProBusiness Services Inc. Jerri learned much of her trade as a Director in Deloitte & Touche, where she gained a national reputation assisting clients in complying with domestic and international tax reporting and withholding requirements. She received her JD and LLM in Taxation from the University of Florida - College of Law (1982) and is a member of the Florida and Michigan bars.

Jerri co-authors the AAPA Guide to Accounts Payable published by ASPEN in conjunction with the American Accounts Payable Association, an affiliate of the American Payroll Association, and contributes to The Payroll Answer Book and The California Payroll Guide, also ASPEN publications, as well as writes many other publications that are widely circulated. She is frequently quoted in many trade journals and is a frequent lecturer around the country on these topics.
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