Wage and Hour, Employees, Income Taxes

Two Big Beautiful Tax Deductions: What Employers Need to Know

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 7/25/2025

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law. Among its sweeping provisions are two significant changes for wage and hour compliance that employers should be aware of: the creation of...more

Employers Are Obligated to Comply with Tax Law Despite Increase in Frivolous Tax Arguments

Littler on 5/20/2025

In the recent United States Tax Court case O’Connor v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Judge Arbeit sanctioned the petitioner for advancing frivolous arguments contesting the authority of the IRS to assess tax....more

Georgia Bill Introduced to Not Tax Overtime Compensation: 4 Employer Considerations

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/27/2025

A bill introduced in the Georgia state legislature, if passed, would exclude overtime compensation from Georgia state income taxes starting in 2026. House Bill 375 (H.B. 375), introduced on Feb. 11, 2025, would exclude from...more

Ohio Municipal Income Tax: Cities permitted to tax wages earned by Ohio employees working outside the municipalities while at home...

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC on 3/19/2024

The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the right of Ohio municipalities to tax wages earned by employees working outside the municipality from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schaad v. Alder Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-525 (Feb. 14,...more

Recent Legislation Changes Illinois Non-Resident Employee Withholding Rules

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/20/2019

Seyfarth Synopisis: Illinois recently enacted legislation that changes the rules for withholding income tax from non-resident employees. The new rules replace the current, somewhat more complicated rules with a more...more

Travel Costs of Fly-In-Fly-Out Workers

K&L Gates LLP on 7/14/2015

The recent Full Federal Court of Australia decision in John Holland Group Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2015] FCAFC 82 concerned whether the costs incurred by an employer to transport fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) employees,...more