Your registered agent is just someone in another location that is authorized to accept mail for you. That's it.

If you work remotely for a company based in New York but you live and work outside of New York, then you pay taxes as if you're a New Yorker.

So, if the posters are free, what’s the actual protectable intellectual property in these companies? How do they differentiate their product? What’s to keep someone else from, like, offering the Nebraska minimum wage poster for 5¢ less?

The Workplace Posting Strike Force isn’t going to kick down your door and drag you to jail for not posting a Polygraph Protection Act notice in your break room. Labor posters serve to show that the company let employees know about their rights.

How does this even slip through? For THREE YEARS? Part of it had to do with a quirk of how taxes work in reciprocity states like Wisconsin. Part of it was because state agencies don’t talk to each other. And implementation teams aren’t tax experts. And some payroll providers don’t have enough error flags for situations like this. And humans are flawed. They make mistakes.

Here’s the only thing you need to know about this law: Don’t fire people for not coming to work when they run out of PTO until they’ve missed at least 4 days of work. That’s all it means.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you threw five cats in a bag and asked them to run your payroll? Or have you already tried Paylocity?

So, what do you do if your company accommodates remote work and one of your employees emigrates? Voluntarily? You have two choices: They become a contractor or Hire an employer of record (EOR)

There’s more to the difference between an employee and a contractor than whether the company withholds taxes.

To get this one solved, I had to engage Claire-en mode. I demanded to speak to a manager. When the first person wouldn’t call a manager, I hung up and called again.

The PEO issues the paycheck, but you pay the wages, taxes, and employer portion of benefits. Since the PEO is the employer on paper, they handle registering for state agencies and tracking compliance laws. And because PEOs can pool all of their client-employees, you get access the more affordable and flexible large-group benefits.

Your dark and mysterious payroll past comes back into your life. Another notice. Something unreadable. You thought you'd left this all behind. But here it is again. Your pulse quickens. You're back under the tax agency's smoldering gaze. And this time, they won't take no for an answer.

I just really, really love Rippling. Because I’ve used it. And I’ve used its competitors. And, in my opinion, Rippling is better. At (just about) everything.

When you move, the old taxes need to be discontinued and the new ones added. This is true, even if your office stays in the same place. Or if you work from home. Especially if you work from home. If you don’t fix it soon, the state is going to send you a whopper of a bill when you file your tax return.

Hey, Tyler. I noticed you have seven dependents on your tax form. Usually those would be people in your immediate family who share your living expenses and rely on your income, like a spouse and kids. Are you sure that all of these people would actually be considered dependents for tax purposes?

Deel is like if a pickup artist did payroll. Deel is the stereotypical tech-bro, “move fast and break (your) things,” the-rules-are-for-thee-and-not-for-me, all-glitz-no-substance disappointment. It looks pretty in the demo, even if those fancy buttons and cool apps never work as expected.

When you work overtime, you’re paid time and a half. The OBBBA only applies to the “and a half” portion of your pay. The OBBBA only applies to federal overtime, or hours worked beyond 40 hours in a week.

Many companies with fewer than 200 people will literally sign away legal control of their employees and pay multiple times more for payroll services. Just so they don’t have to think about state tax settings.

So your company’s In-N-Out reimbursement policy is a taxable benefit. But how do you tax a burger that's already in your belly? In payroll, this problem is solved with what’s called an “in-and-out.”

“I was disappointed to learn that I was paid the same as the guy checking receipts at Walmart.” He said in his annual self-review after getting a big, fat check.