The tax world is overflowing with funky-sounding acronyms, and FUTA might be the strangest one out there. You may be wondering, What is FUTA tax?
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April 25, 2025
What Is SUTA Tax? Overview of the Mandatory Payroll Tax
When you become an employer, you add a lot of things to your plate, like running payroll. One of your employer responsibilities with payroll is withholding certain taxes, such as SUTA tax. But, what is SUTA tax?
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April 24, 2025
The Average Cost of Living by State, and Why Ignoring it Could Sink Your Business
You hear about it all the time in the news—Cost of living rising! Maybe you think about it on a daily basis—Do I earn enough to cover my standard of living in my state?
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April 22, 2025
CO Business Owners, Do You Know About the Colorado Retirement Mandate?
Do you offer your employees retirement benefits? Most employers in the Centennial State don’t have a choice, thanks to the Colorado retirement mandate known as Colorado SecureSavings.
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April 21, 2025
What Is the EEO-1 Report, and Which Employers Need to File it?
When your business grows, you may need to hire additional employees. But, hiring more employees comes with additional responsibilities. Depending on the number of employees you have and some other factors, you may be responsible for filing an EEO-1 report. So … what is EEO-1, anyways?
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April 17, 2025
What Is a Financial Statement? [+ Examples]
Business owners need to have a pulse on their organization’s financial performance and cash flow for decision making and obtaining business financing. You can learn how your business is doing holistically by preparing different financial statements. So, what is a financial statement?
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April 17, 2025
Will Tariffs Hit Small Businesses the Hardest?
In April of 2025, President Trump announced a 10% tariff on all countries, plus a higher reciprocal tariff on select countries with large trade deficits. Although Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs on April 9 (except China, who now has a 145% tariff), one important question remains: How do tariffs affect small businesses?
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April 15, 2025
8 Simple Steps to Process Payroll
Part of your title as “employer” also includes “payroll processor.” When you hire employees, you have to add them to payroll, withhold the proper taxes, and pay employees. It’s all part of the job. But if you’re new to this employer role, you may not be exactly sure how to process payroll. We’ve written down […]
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April 15, 2025
Should You Run Weekly Payroll or Biweekly?
Most businesses—70%—pay employees weekly or biweekly. But between weekly payroll and biweekly payroll, which is best for your business?
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April 8, 2025
States With Paid Family Leave [+ Chart]
According to the most recent BLS data, 27.5% of workers have access to paid family leave. Do yours? If you do business in one of the states with paid family leave laws, the answer should be yes.
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