Payroll

Employment at small businesses increased in March at the highest rate in over two years, according to payroll figures from Intuit.

Optimism is growing among small business owners, according to a survey by payroll provider SurePayroll.

Private sector employers added 209,000 jobs from February to March, according to the latest national employment report from payroll giant ADP, in the latest sign of a slowly recovering economy.

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Halfpricesoft has added Form 941 for the employer’s quarterly federal tax return to its ezPaycheck small business payroll software.

CBIZ is reporting a slight increase in hiring at small businesses in February.

The economy continued to gain jobs last month, with another 227,000 added in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although the unemployment rate remained unchanged from January, at 8.3 percent.

Employment in the private sector rose by 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Small businesses continued to create jobs in February, particularly in hard-hit states, but the pace of job creation is slowing down.

The Internal Revenue Service released a revised Form 941 on Thursday to allow employers to properly report the newly extended payroll tax cut, which has now been extended through the end of the year.

President Obama has signed into law an extension through the end of the year of the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the so-called “doc fix” to prevent Medicare physician reimbursement rates from plunging.

Congress passed legislation Friday extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the “doc fix” for Medicare physician reimbursements through the remainder of the year.

House and Senate negotiators have released a conference committee report spelling out several of the provisions of the payroll tax cut extension legislation, which also extends unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” for Medicare reimbursements for physicians.

Lawmakers negotiating over the payroll tax cut extension said they have agreed on a deal to extend the 2 percentage point cut in Social Security and Medicare withholding taxes through the rest of the year, along with unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” to prevent Medicare reimbursements to physicians from being cut.

U.S. lawmakers reached a tentative deal on Tuesday on legislation aimed at boosting the economy by extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers through this year and continuing long-term jobless benefits, congressional aides said.

After months of wrangling, congressional leaders appear to be close to a deal on extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the so-called “doc fix” for Medicare physician reimbursements through the end of the year.

Payroll processing company Payroll City has developed an interface module to help users transfer all of their payroll data with QuickBooks

Small business owners’ optimism about the economy held steady in January, according to payroll provider SurePayroll.

Small business-focused cloud accounting software developer Wave Accounting has released its first online payroll tool, Wave Payroll, initially targeted toward Canadian users, with a U.S. version planned for mid-2012.

Private sector employers added 170,000 jobs in January, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP, which saw most of the gains in small and midsized businesses come in the service sector.