By David Lewis, Executive Vice President  Now that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has become law and the IRS just released the new income-tax withholding tables for 2018, you may be scratching your head about what exactly this means and what it will affect.  The Act will have wide implications for millions of workers…
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By: Dave Ignaski, Payroll Tax Manager The concept of unemployment contributions rates can be tricky. For starters, not all 50 states even use that term. Some call them Unemployment Insurance while others use Unemployment Compensation. Regardless, all mean the same thing – a state-administered tax that is collected to provide a source of income for…
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The employee experience is a pretty big deal. So big, that it’s been a featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, SHRM, and in research by Deloitte. Why? Because a positive experience leads to happier employees, and happier employees stay in their jobs longer. But that’s not all, happy employees with a longer tenure also offer…
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It’s Open Enrollment and you have unwelcome changes to deliver – you’re changing providers, premiums are going up, or the perfect storm of stressful, both. It’s time to tell employees about their health insurance rate changes. As a company, Sentric recently went through this very situation, and our HR team did a few things that…
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IRS Instructions for the Form 1095-C These instructions are a great place to start and definitely required reading for any organization that has to file year-end ACA paperwork. IRS.gov Information Center for Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) The IRS breaks down everything an ALE needs to know. Not sure if you’re an ALE, the IRS even…
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Regardless of how long an employee has been in the working world, they’ve probably only experienced open enrollment a couple of dozen times. That’s because it happens just once a year. So, prepare to cut them some slack if they can’t remember the difference between an HSA and an FSA. It would be helpful if…
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