Stacy Kildal, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, recommends that practitioners do a payroll tune-up with their clients ahead of year-end to avoid any problems (or resolve them).
"Go in and make sure their payroll items are set up properly, their tax tables are up-to-date, their liability payments are current-check that they're not in arrears for any of the taxes that they may owe, either federal or state," she says. "Make sure that they've been filing and submitting their forms (either electronically or via paper mail). Reconcile the W-2s to the 941s, and simple things: make sure Social Security numbers and addresses, even for former employees, are correct."
Our Payroll Group' interviewed Stacy and more on Stacy's comments can be found here.
Last Updated: 12/18/2007