Have employees in multiple states? There are multistate New Hire Reporting elections that can be made to make compliance easier.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newhire/employer/publication/forms/mseform6.pdf
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Payments must be scheduled at least one calendar day prior to the tax due date by 8:00 p.m. ET.
CA EFT Tax Payment Transmission Deadline: 3p PT one day prior to payment date.
If you use Estimates in QuickBooks then progess bill on an Invoice, you may not want your customers to see the line items on either document. The solution is to use Groups.
A Group is a container that holds Items. A new group is created from the same menu an Item is, Lists -> New Item, except change the Item type in the drop-down menu to Group. You can put something generic in the “Group Name” and “Description” fields, such as “Contract Billing”.
Toward the bottom of the New Item dialog box, you can setup some common items. The neat thing about Groups is that items can be later added on the fly when you are creating the Estimate without having to permanently modify the Group.
When creating the Estimate, you select the Group as the Item. All of the Group’s Items will show on the screen version of the Estimate, but when printed or print-previewed, it only shows the one Group Item. You can add other items in between the top “header” and bottom “footer” group placeholders that you’ll see by clicking on the row and then right-clicking then select “Insert Line” (or Ctrl+Insert if you like keyboard shortcuts like me).
Where it all ties together is when you create a progress invoice, on screen again you’ll see all the individual items, but when printed (or print previewed), only the Group item is displayed, not all the individual items.
Usually Dropbox gets installed on a server on a per Windows user basis in “c:\users\<your user\appdata\roaming\dropbox”. Each RemoteDesktop user has their own install and synching to Dropbox servers (and other DropBox users) will only happen when the remote desktop client is logged in because it’s a desktop application that starts upon user login and closes upon user log off (of Remote Desktop) as described here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=20144.
This which kinda limits the usefulness somewhat., but I found the following on http://blog.dreamfactory.se/2011/01/20/dropbox-as-a-service/
I copied the text and pasted it here in case it disappeared.
I wanted to install a backup solution, and made a go for using the Dropbox service.
What you need: Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit. Assuming installation was done in default directory.
1. Install Dropbox (I used version 1.0.10)
2. Choose preferences and uncheck “Show desktop notifications” and “Start Dropbox on system startup”
3. Exit Dropbox by clicking exit in the context menu that shows when right clicking icon in task bar
4. Execute at command line prompt:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>instsrv Dropbox "c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe"
If everything went ok, the following will be displayed:
The service was successfuly added!
Make sure that you go into the Control Panel and use
the Services applet to change the Account Name and
Password that this newly installed service will use
for its Security Context.
Next is to change the user for witch the newly added service “Dropbox” runs under. Change this to Administrator.
5. Choose properties on Dropbox service.
6. Click on tab “Log On”
7. Click “This account”, and select Admimistrator. Set appropriate password.
8. Click Apply and OK
If this is the first time you have done this procedure for the administrator user, you will get an notification saying that the “Administrator user has been granted log on as service rights”
Next is to setup some registry settings for the service
9. Start > Run > regedit
10. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dropbox
11. Create a new key “Parameters”
12. Add a new string value “Application”, (type REG_SZ). Set the value to the path to the dropbox.exe binary. Find the location by right clicking on the Dropbox icon on the desktop. Simply copy the path from there.
13. Close Registry Editor
14. Go back to Services, and start the Dropbox service
Now everything should be in place and work correctly.
Addition: It works fine to stop the Dropbox service, then start Dropbox and make changes in preferences etc, save changes and exit Dropbox. Then you can start Dropbox service again without problems. Work very neat actually. Running now on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 64-bit. On Windows Server 2008 you can just copy instsrv.exe and srvany.exe to a folder under Program Files and create the Dropbox service from there.
Dropbox seems pretty transparent about their terms of service and provides a good level of security in our opinion. They explain that they do manage the encryption key which allows them to provide service that works easily between users and the ability to download and preview files. This does means that they can decrypt the file and state that they will under very limited circumstances such as by court order. They even suggest a method to encrypt the file for putting it into a dropbox folder. Read their post regarding this http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=735
Direct Deposit Transmission:
There is a hard deadline of 5pm PT two business days before pay date. Wed 5pm PT for Fri pay day.
e-pay of tax payments:
2 business days prior to payment date.
Although IRS EFTPS has a transmission deadline of only 8p ET the day before payment date, QuickBooks requires you to transmit 2 business days prior to payment date. We cannot confirm a certain time. Seems as if Intuit wants a one day safety net of time to transmit the payments to the IRS. We have found that transmission usually results in an immediate “Agency Acceptance” status within QuickBooks and shows up in www.eftps.gov immediately as well. Perhaps other state agencies require a longer period and QuickBooks standardizes this for ease to the support staff and end users.
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2011 Social Sec/Medicare Rates & Wage Bases
Social Security:
EmployEE: 4.2% on earnings up to $106,800
EmployER: 6.2% on earnings up to $106,800
Medicare:
Employee/employer (each) 1.45% on all earnings