Payroll

Intuit has released an iPad and iPhone app for Intuit Online Payroll, just a few months after unveiling a similar app for QuickBooks Online.

Cloud accounting and small business finance tool maker Wave has added the Payroll Tax Service for in 10 U.S. states with more coming later in the year.

Amit Jain of ADP Small Business Services discusses how the accounting firm of tomorrow will be different from accounting firms today, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

Amit Jain of ADP Small Business Services discusses the challenges of growing an accounting practice, retaining clients, increasing cash flow, recruiting and retaining staff members, and dealing with regulatory complexity, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The South Atlantic, West South Central and Pacific regions had the most private sector job growth in May, according to a new report by payroll giant ADP, with Texas, Florida, California and Georgia leading the way.

The unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 7.6 percent in May as employers added 175,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

ADP said Thursday that it has helped U.S. businesses find more than $1.4 billion in tax credits in 2012.

Employers in the private sector added 135,000 jobs from April to May, according to payroll giant ADP, which represented an increase over the previous month, but still indicated some softening of the employment picture.

Payroll provider SurePayroll said it is seeing rising optimism among small business owners, even as hiring and average paycheck size declined at their businesses.

ADP is enhancing its ADP Tax Credits software to help companies capture Work Opportunity Tax Credits for hiring employees.

Lots more partnering to discuss this week as well as my take on a certain cloud ERP vendor's impending annual meeting of customers and resellers.

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., urged Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller to do more to keep unscrupulous payroll service providers from cheating small businesses out of unremitted withholding taxes during an IRS budget hearing.

CompuPay, Inc., a BenefitMall Company, has formed a channel partnership with open source ERP product maker Open Systems, which will provide its resellers and end users access to CompuPay’s PayrollOnline service.

The unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 7.5 percent, the lowest rate in five years, as employers added 165,000 jobs in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Index above 15,000 points.

Small business employment in the U.S. increased in April, according to figures from Intuit, while average compensation and the hours worked decreased.

Private sector employers added only 119,000 jobs in April, according to payroll giant ADP, indicating a slowdown in employment perhaps caused by the increase in payroll taxes and effects from the budget sequester in Washington.

The increase in payroll taxes this year has led to financial stress for many Americans, while taking a toll on their waistlines, sleep patterns and friendships, according to a new survey.

Free online accounting software maker Wave is now offering an iOS payroll tool as a companion app to their online payroll product.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued advice from its Office of Chief Counsel providing guidance to employers who request refunds of Federal Insurance Contributions Act payroll withholding taxes for medical residents.

There's a lot to try to make sense of this week, however I feel I'm better suited to offer insight into the moves companies and consultants in our space have made, rather than those of individuals in a certain Northeastern city.