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Understanding Household Employment
How To Conduct A Paycheck Checkup And Prevent Tax Time Surprises
Using the IRS withholding calculator can help your employee perform a quick “paycheck checkup” to help protect against having too little or too much federal income tax withheld.
Updated W-4 and Withholding Calculator Will Help Employees with Accurate Tax Withholdings
If you withhold income taxes from your domestic employee’s pay, encourage them to use the IRS’ withholding calculator and updated W-4 form to make sure they have the right amount of tax taken out of their paychecks.
Follow these Steps When Hiring In-Home Senior Care
When you hire private, in-home senior care, you may become a household employer. While this will give you more control over the employment situation, a number of tax, wage, and legal nuances come along with being an employer.
Domestic Employee Work Agreement: What to Include and When to Re-visit
The domestic employee work agreement may be the single most important document between your family and worker. It outlines the employment engagement with specific details about compensation, benefits, terms, and more.
Paying “On the Books:” How Your Nanny Benefits from Legal Pay
Your nanny benefits in a number of ways and gains protections when being paid legally. It far outweighs the small amount of money that will be taken out of their pay in taxes each week.
How Tax Reform May Impact Your Family
Recent tax reform made significant changes to income tax rates, exemptions, deductions, credits, and more. Here are the key provisions that may influence your tax liability under the new legislation.
How to a Hire a Senior Caregiver
Looking to hire a senior caregiver for your elderly loved one? Take these steps — from developing a job description to making an offer — to ensure you’re hiring the right candidate.
Infographic: Retaining Your Nanny
You’ve found the perfect nanny for your family. Now you want to do all that you can to retain your nanny. Here are best practices for retention including what a nanny wants to see in a family, how to recognize your nanny with bonuses and benefits, and why nannies want to be paid legally.
5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make Your Life Easier as a Household Employer
Household employers can take these steps to make their lives — and the lives of their workers — easier and improve their work relationship. If you employ a domestic worker like a nanny or senior caregiver, here are five New Year’s resolutions for you.
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