Ringing in the New Year Taxwise: Mid-Year Payroll Tax Changes for 2025

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SHRM & HRCI Approved Webinar | CEUs = 1.5 Credit Hours

Overview:

Ringing the new year for payroll professionals can be a hectic time. Finishing out the old year while ensuring the new year is off to a good start compliance-wise can be a delicate balancing act fraught with missteps if you don’t have all the information you need.  In this webinar we will give the latest tax news for 2025 to help your payroll department transition from a Tax Year 2024 to Tax Year 2025. We will cover how all the latest tax news available including any new legislation affecting payroll in 2025.

Focusing first on the IRS, we will discuss the updates to inflation-based items such as the new pension plan limits and transportation fringe benefits. We will review the 2025 IRS forms including forms W-2, W-4 and 941. Moving on to the states we will cover the updates to minimum wages, unemployment insurance wage bases and sick leave updates.

We will also cover any late-breaking legislation/regulation changes coming out of Washington like the OBBB Act and much more...

What will You Learn:

  • Latest information on and updates for the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
  • New look and new copies for 2025 Form W-2
  • Update on tax year changes for social security wage base,  federal per diem allowance, standard mileage rate, qualified transportation fringe benefits, and more.
  • Review of the Form 941 for 2025
  • How to handle duplicate requests for Form W-2 including charging fees
  • Status review of Publication 1494 for 2025
  • Changes to Form W-4 for 2025
  • Best practices in the new year for gathering, calculating, taxing and reconciling W-2 data all year long as is now expected by the IRS
  • Taxation of fringe benefits for in the new year including awards and prizes, personal use of company cars and gift certificates
  • When to use the Form W-2c and when to correct the W-2 itself
  • State regulatory changes affecting payroll including SUI wage bases, minimum wage increases and more
  • Verifying employee names and SSN’s
  • Review of filing deadlines
  • Review of federal tax legislation

Why should You Attend:

This webinar concentrates on preparing the department for the new tax calendar year.  Topics include IRS new limits on pension plans, updates to forms W-2, W-4 and 941, discussion of new or pending federal legislation and state updates including new rates for benefits, changes to minimum wage and SUI wage bases.

Who should Attend:

  • Payroll Executives/ Managers/ Administrators/ Professionals/ Practitioners/ Entry Level Personnel
  • Human Resources Executives/ Managers/Administrators
  • Accounting Personnel
  • Business Owners/ Executive Officers/ Operations and Departmental Managers
  • Lawmakers
  • Attorneys/ Legal Professionals
  • Any individual or entity that must deal with the complexities and requirements of Payroll compliance issues for Year End closing and preparing for the upcoming year.

SHRM -

CEU Services is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit - portal.shrm.org.

HRCI -

This webinar has been approved for 1.5 HR (General) re-certification credit hours toward California, GPHR, HRBP, HRMP, PHR, and SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the activity. It means that this activity has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for re-certification credit.

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Vicki M. Lambert
The Payroll Advisor

Vicki M. Lambert, CPP, is President and Academic Director of The Payroll Advisor™, a firm specializing in payroll education and training. With nearly 40 years of hands-on experience in all facets of payroll functions as well as over three decades as a trainer and author.

Ms. Lambert has become the most sought-after and respected voice in the practice and management of payroll issues. She has conducted open market training seminars on payroll issues across the United States that have been attended by executives and professionals from some of the most prestigious firms in business today. A pioneer in electronic and online education, Ms. Lambert produces and presents payroll-related audio seminars, webinars, and webcasts for clients, APA chapters, and business groups throughout the country.

Ms. Lambert is an adjunct faculty member at Brandman University in Southern California and is the creator of and instructor for their Practical Payroll Online program, which is approved for recertification hours by the APA. She is also the instructor for the American Payroll Association’s “PayTrain” online program also offered by Brandman University.