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Michele Bossart

What Is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?

When you become an employer, you can’t always play by your own rules. There are certain federal, as well as state and local, standards you must follow. The FLSA is one set of federal regulations you need to know about and comply with. What is the FLSA?

What Employers Need to Know About Taxable Wages

By Michele Bossart

Part of being an employer is withholding taxes from your employees’ wages before giving them their paychecks. That’s why you need to understand taxable wages before you run payroll.

Social Security Tax: Get to Know it Before Writing That Paycheck

By Michele Bossart

Employers are responsible for withholding, remitting, and filing payroll taxes on behalf of their employees. And, there are some taxes you contribute on behalf of your employees. Social Security tax is one of those essential taxes that impacts both the employer and the employee.

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Tips vs. Auto-Gratuities (Service Charges): Why It Matters for Payroll

By Michele Bossart

If your employees earn money directly from customers—at a restaurant, salon, hotel, or bar—you already know how confusing tip reporting can be. The IRS draws a very specific line between tips and auto-gratuities (aka, service charges), and the difference affects payroll taxes, employee reporting, and even year-end W-2s. Let’s break it down in plain English. […]

Patriot Payroll partners with SimplyInsured to offer health benefits

Patriot Payroll Customers Can Now Add Health Benefits in Just a Few Clicks

By Michele Bossart

Patriot Software, a leader in cloud-based payroll and accounting solutions, has joined forces with SimplyInsured, a digital benefits platform, to simplify one of the toughest jobs for small business owners: offering health insurance. The new integration embeds insurance shopping, enrollment, and payroll deductions directly inside Patriot’s payroll software.

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Patriot Software Unveils Another Huge Time-Saving Feature: Auto Payroll

By Michele Bossart

CANTON, OH Patriot Software, a leading provider of accounting and payroll software in the USA, today announced Auto Payroll, a powerful new feature designed to eliminate repetitive administrative work for small business owners and accountants. The feature is available immediately to both Full Service Payroll and Basic Payroll customers. Auto Payroll is engineered for companies […]

woman at computer creating IRS ready chart of accounts

How to Create a Chart of Accounts That’s “IRS Ready”

By Michele Bossart

Tax season. Just hearing the words can send shivers down a business owner’s spine. But what if you could change that? What if instead of scrambling for receipts and trying to make sense of a year’s worth of transactions, you could simply generate the reports you need with a few clicks?

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Less Paperwork, More Productivity: Patriot Payroll Launches New Employee Self-Onboarding

By Michele Bossart

Canton, OH Patriot Software, a leading provider of accounting and payroll software in the U.S., announces a new value-added feature for all payroll customers—employee self-onboarding for new hires. Employee self-onboarding significantly cuts down on administrative burdens and offers businesses a swift and professional method to integrate new hire information into their payroll system. Many of […]