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Advanced Payroll Debra Heikkinen – Tax Director Participants will explore payroll reporting obligations from the employer perspective and payroll tax withholding requirements for different types of inbound and outbound international assignees. This session will give an overview of payroll reporting for equity compensation, including RSUs and stock options. Also discussed will be compensation reporting requirements and different types of IRS forms, including W4, 673, W9, and W8BEN. Closing the Payroll Gap: Providing Your Small Business Customers with Affordable Online Payroll CANCELLED Paperless Payroll Kathy Kearney – AVP, Payroll and Benefit Accounting This session will be roundtable discussion addressing the most common avenues to get to “paperless payroll”: pay cards, electronic wage statements, and employee self service web sites. Contribute to a discussion with other payroll professionals about successes, challenges, and legislative obstacles related to paperless payroll. Regardless of whether or not you have achieved paperless payroll, you will gain knowledge and information related to choosing a third-party partner, implementation strategies, and tips on how to be successful with these initiatives. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Implementing Effective Internal Controls for the Payroll Tax Function Debra Heikkinen – Tax Director This session will highlight top issues to consider and strategies for developing effective internal control frameworks for payroll tax functions. Participants will gain insight on how to enhance key control activities for managing the risk of noncompliance with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. TOPICS INCLUDE: • Top areas of potential exposure and the most highly scrutinized types of transactions. When AP and Payroll Should Talk Phil Cavoretto – Director, Disbursements This session explores the circumstances where AP and payroll issues overlap and the two departments should be comparing notes. There is a great deal of synergy to be achieved when these two departments share appropriate information. The result is an increased quality of informational reporting, keeping your employer in favor with government agencies. Share information that will help answer these questions: Who is an employee? Is this person due a 1099 or a W-2 or both? Why does your audit department care if your AP and payroll departments talk to each other? Worker Classification Debra Heikkinen – Tax Director Participants will learn whether a worker should be treated as an independent contractor or employee, the current IRS environment on these issues, and audit defenses such as section 530 “relief,” etc. |