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Support your clients, your team (and yourself!) through 2021

As the profession seeks to support clients continuing turmoil the pressure mounts on individuals working in accountancy and bookkeeping practices. James Kilford, founder of Senta, explores how to build an anti-burnout plan for your practice. A very different year Navigating self-assessment season is an exhausting period in any normal year for the accountancy profession. This time around […]

Hiring Employees in Mexico

Payroll year-end is a crucial time for accounting firms and payroll service bureaus. It involves a series of tasks that must be completed accurately and on time to comply with tax regulations and labor laws. This guide will walk you through critical tasks such as W-2 and 1099 preparation, tax reconciliation, labor law compliance, and more.

Hiring Employees in Canada

Payroll year-end is a crucial time for accounting firms and payroll service bureaus. It involves a series of tasks that must be completed accurately and on time to comply with tax regulations and labor laws. This guide will walk you through critical tasks such as W-2 and 1099 preparation, tax reconciliation, labor law compliance, and more.

Hiring Employees in France

Payroll year-end is a crucial time for accounting firms and payroll service bureaus. It involves a series of tasks that must be completed accurately and on time to comply with tax regulations and labor laws. This guide will walk you through critical tasks such as W-2 and 1099 preparation, tax reconciliation, labor law compliance, and more.

Hiring Employees in Germany

Payroll year-end is a crucial time for accounting firms and payroll service bureaus. It involves a series of tasks that must be completed accurately and on time to comply with tax regulations and labor laws. This guide will walk you through critical tasks such as W-2 and 1099 preparation, tax reconciliation, labor law compliance, and more.

Hiring Employees in the Netherlands

Payroll year-end is a crucial time for accounting firms and payroll service bureaus. It involves a series of tasks that must be completed accurately and on time to comply with tax regulations and labor laws. This guide will walk you through critical tasks such as W-2 and 1099 preparation, tax reconciliation, labor law compliance, and more.

Retroactive Payroll Adjustments Explained

Some mistakes are costlier than others. If you underpaid an employee, especially during a pay period, what should you do next? To rectify this mistake, you adjust pay retroactively (and swiftly). Without proper caution, this can spiral into employee dissatisfaction and, possibly worse, incompliance with US labor laws. What is a retroactive pay adjustment? Retroactive […]

Star announces smart payments portal integration with Apxium

Star is pleased to announce a new smart payments portal integration with Apxium. Working with Apxium, a specialist payments portal vendor who are experienced in working with accounting firms, we have between us created a sophisticated interface between our two applications. Not only can client payments made via Apxium be automatically received into Star Practice […]

Form W-4 and Employee Tax Withholding FAQs

Last year the IRS issued the redesigned Form W-4 (Employee’s Withholding Certificate). The revised form no longer uses withholding allowances. Instead, there is a five-step process and new Publication 15-T (Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods) for determining employee withholding. The release of the revised form caused confusion and prompted questions from both employers and employees alike, and […]

What is Off Payroll Working?

Off payroll working in the private sector can be confusing to understand, but it’s vital to do so if you are a contractor, or you procure the services of a contractor/similar intermediary at your company.  As a HMRC policy, off-payroll working rules (also known as IR35) are frequently updated, and some changes will be implemented […]

Lease Accounting

We’re passionate about maximising outcomes for the education sector Our education software is designed with the needs of all schools and MATs in mind, driving efficiencies, protecting budgets, ensuring compliance, and enabling school leaders to get on with what they do best – supporting students. Every year, we process four million online payments for more […]