Payroll is the one thing in a small business that cannot slip. Employees notice immediately, and the agencies notice shortly after — usually with a penalty attached. The deadlines do not move, and there is no version of catching up later that is cheaper than doing it on time.
We run payroll end to end: the pay runs, the tax deposits, the quarterly returns, and the year-end forms. You approve hours; everything downstream is ours.
You just made your first hire and discovered payroll is a compliance regime, not a calculation.
Reasonable compensation has to actually run through payroll for the election to hold up.
Already got a letter from the IRS or EDD. We sort out what happened and get you back on schedule.
We confirm your federal and state accounts are registered correctly — the step that causes most first-year penalties.
Pay runs go out on your schedule, deposits and filings happen on theirs. You approve, we handle the rest.
W-2s and 1099s issued on time, and the payroll numbers already tie to the books and the tax return.
Yes. If your business is taxed as an S-Corporation and you work in it, the IRS expects you to pay yourself reasonable compensation as W-2 wages through payroll. Distributions alone are one of the most commonly challenged positions in a small business audit. We set the payroll up and handle the filings that go with it.
Yes. We start by finding out exactly which filings and deposits were missed and what the agencies currently show, then get the back filings in and the ongoing schedule running correctly. Penalty abatement is sometimes available depending on the history.
Yes. California has its own registration, reporting, and deposit rules through the EDD on top of the federal requirements, and they are a common source of first-year penalties for new employers. We are based in California and handle these routinely.
Yes. Multi-state payroll means registering in each state where you have employees and following each one's deposit and filing rules. We set up the registrations and run it from there.
It should, and when we do both it does. Payroll posts straight into the books, so wages, taxes, and liabilities are already reconciled instead of being untangled at year end.
Tell us how many people you pay and how often, and we will tell you exactly what it takes.
