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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
Rippling has expanded its Employer of Record program to eight new countries. The change is part of the latest monthly release of the office application.
With EOR, a user can establish a legal entity in a country outside the United States, giving the user the ability to hire and pay employees in other countries. The latest additions are Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey.
In addition, Rippling is providing hourly workers with a weekly break down of pay on paystubs so they can see hours worked, including overtime, for each of the weeks included in the pay period.
Users can now down payroll comparison data as a CSV file. Rippling says it has also provided more efficient time-entry CSV imports for Time an Attendance since users can automatically reconcile timestamps based on the employee’s timezone and
filter down to a specific set of imported entries and delete only those
They can also import thousands of entries in seconds, versus 30 minutes.
View items...Republic Refund Income Plunges
- Monday, 22 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Income from the tax refund business of Republic Bancorp plunged for the first quarter ended March 31. The company last year was the last bank to offer Refund Anticipation Loans. This year, it reported the loss of two retail tax chains that had been represented more than half of its refund transfer volume were factors as refund fee income dropped to just over $12 million for the most recently ended quarter, down from $71.7 million a year earlier.
Sage 50 (Peachtree) to Update More Often
- Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage North America has launched Sage 50 Accounting 2014-U.S., the latest version of the low-cost accounting package that was known as Peachtree until last year. And the company broke with past practice of introducing new versions in May by pushing it out the door this month to make way for more-frequent updates.
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Thomson Buys TaxWorks Software
- Tuesday, 16 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A disastrous year with a rewritten tax preparation package turned out to be the last for TaxWorks, the software line marketed by RedGear Technologies. Thomson Reuters said its Tax & Accounting business has acquired select assets of the TaxWorks software line. TaxWorks customers will receive information about converting to Thomson's UltraTax software.
Armanino Picks Up Xero
- Wednesday, 10 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Rapidly growing accounting firm Armanino has adopted Xero, the low-end online software from New Zealand, for providing outsourced accounting services to its clients. It's a big win for the rapidly growing application company, which is still very small compared to its competitors.
N.J. Man Pleads to False Return Charge
- Wednesday, 10 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A Somerville, N.J.-based tax preparer has pleaded guilty to trying to impede Internal Revenue laws and preparing a false tax return. Eric Majette, 52, owner of the Berrisford Group Tax & Accounting Services entered the plea after being indicted in January.
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New Release Solves QBES Woes?
Intuit's latest release of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 2013 was supposed to solve the problems that had affected the product on the upper end of the QuickBooks line. The view seems to be that Release 6 has worked, well mainly. But until that product hit the streets a week ago, users were experiencing such issues as the system crashing.
IRS2Go Available in Spanish
- Friday, 05 April 2013
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Internal Revenue Service has released IRS2Go 3.0, an update to its smartphone application. The latest version provides the mobile app with the ability to acccess tax tools and information for the first time in Spanish. The taxpayer's phone language settings determine whether content appears in English or in Spanish.
Court Bars Quick Sam Owner from Tax Prep
- Monday, 01 April 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A federal court has barred John Newlin, owner of Gary, Ind.-based Quick Sam, and his firm from preparing federal income tax returns for others. Newlin and Quick Sam agreed to a civil injunction order without admitting the allegations.
Paychex Results Move Up in Third Quarter
- Wednesday, 27 March 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Paychex moved forward in single-digit increases in net income, payroll revenue and total revenue for the third quarter ended February. The company also said this week that client retention remains at near-record levels as it completed its peak selling season for payroll services during the current fiscal year.
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OneSource Tax Goes to the Cloud
- Wednesday, 27 March 2013
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters has introduced a cloud version of OneSource Tax. The product is available to companies of all sizes. A spokesperson noted that there is no change in the target market from the desktop version.
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