Understanding Payroll Taxes at a High Level

Payroll tax laws keep changing, and understanding the taxes, forms and audits involved matters to every organization. This 60-minute payroll taxes training gives a high-level overview for people who need the big picture.

You'll cover the basics of payroll tax, the federal, state and local forms you need to know and how those forms change, plus tips and tricks for reading them.

The session also covers auditing payroll and forms, keeping track of tax information, and how to communicate with employees about their payroll taxes.

• Explain payroll taxes at a high level
• Identify the federal, state and local payroll forms and recent changes
• Audit payroll and payroll forms
• Communicate payroll tax information to employees

• Understanding payroll tax
• Federal, state and local forms and changes to them
• Auditing payroll and forms
• Tax information to know
• Employee communication
• Tips and tricks for understanding forms

Evolving laws and regulations make payroll taxes hard to keep straight, and mistakes affect both the organization and its employees. This overview helps you understand the essentials quickly.

It suits HR and payroll professionals, small business owners, nonprofit administrators, general and office managers, accounting professionals, attorneys, consultants, lawmakers, labor unions and trainers.

• Human Resources Professionals
• Small Business Owners
• Non-Profit Administrators
• General Managers
• Office Managers
• Payroll Professionals
• Lawmakers
• Attorneys
• Accounting Professionals
• Consultants
• Labor Unions
• Professors, Instructors and Trainers

Matthew Burr has over ten years of experience working in the human resources field, starting his career as an Industrial Relations Intern at Kennedy Valve Manufacturing to most recently founding and managing a human resource consulting company; Burr Consulting, LLC. He specializes in labor and employment law, conflict resolution, performance management, employee relations and work with labor unions. Matthew also has a generalist background in HR and provides strategic HR services to his clients, focusing on small and medium sized organizations. Matthew will be starting as an Associate Professor of Management at Elmira College in July 2017. Matthew is the SHRM Certification Exam Instructor at Elmira College. Matthew works as a trainer Tompkins Cortland Community College, Corning Community College, Broome Community College and Penn State University. He is also an on-call Mediator and Fact-Finder through the Public Employment Relations Board in New York State.

Matthew has publications at the Cornell HR Review, Business Insider, Expert 360 (in Australia). He recently published his first book, $74,000 in 24 Months: How I killed my student loans (and you can too!).

Matthew has an associate's degree in business administration from Tompkins Cortland Community College, a bachelors of science degree from Elmira College, a master's degree from the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations in Human Resources & Industrial Relations, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, both the SPHR and SHRM-SCP. Matthew is currently working towards a masters degree in business administration through Syracuse University with an anticipated completion date of December 2017.