Senate Republicans are offering their own legislation to extend the payroll tax cut while avoiding an extra surtax on millionaires.

Employees at small businesses made less money in November than in October and were working fewer hours, even though 55,000 new jobs were added at small businesses in November, according to Intuit.

Jobs in the private sector shot up by 206,000 in November, according to payroll giant ADP, outperforming most forecasts.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday that he plans to introduce legislation this week that would extend the payroll tax cut that is due to expire at the end of the year.

President Barack Obama told an audience in New Hampshire on Tuesday that their taxes would go up an average of $1,000 to $1,500 unless the payroll tax cut were extended and expanded as part of his jobs bill.

ADP said Monday that small businesses using the company’s online payroll management offering, RUN Powered by ADP, along with those utilizing its human resources outsourcing product ADP TotalSource, will now be able to access the ADP Mobile Solutions app.

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation repealing the 3 percent withholding mandate on government contractors, along with a tax credit for hiring veterans.

Web-based accounting and business application developer Paramount Software has released several new features in its Crest Payroll system, including support for Web-enabled mobile devices, reporting of new hires to all states, client log-in access from a firm’s existing Web site, and the ability to move between fully automated or self-managed modes for all payroll processes.

ADP has signed a partnership with NextGen Software Inc. to create the i2x Integration Suite for ADP Invoice, an electronic invoice and receipt submission application.

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CBIZ found that small business employment fell for the fourth month in a row in October.

ADP has released an updated and expanded version of RUN Powered by ADP Payroll for Accountants, an Internet-based offering designed to help accountants manage their clients’ payroll all in one place, which includes human resources and retirement services features.

The unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.0 percent as employers added 80,000 jobs in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

A new study on the effects of taxes on small and midsized businesses has found that tax compliance is especially challenging for them because they lack the resources or scale to comply with complicated tax laws.

Small businesses generated 30,000 new jobs in October, according to Intuit, but the company found that employees are working fewer hours and earning less money.

SurePayroll found that optimism among small business owners jumped 20 percentage points to 53 percent in October from 33 percent in September, according to the payroll service provider’s latest monthly report.

Private sector employers added 110,000 new jobs to their payrolls in October, mainly in the service sector, according to the monthly employment report from payroll giant ADP.

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Cloud financial management and accounting software provider Intacct has signed a sales, marketing and development partnership with Paychex.

Only 15 percent of the small business owners in a recent survey expect the number of jobs to increase at their companies over the next 12 months.