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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...IRS Exempts CPAs, EAs from Major Proposed Regulations
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Internal Revenue Service has proposed major regulations of the tax preparation business, but would exempt attorneys, CPAs and Enrolled Agents from competency tests and new continuing education requirements. However, all paid preparers would be required to register with the IRS and receive a preparer tax identification number and be subject to a limited tax compliance check. The requirements do not take effect this year and would be rolled out over several years.
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Feds Ask Republic Bank for Meeting on RALS
The refund loan business remained in a state of rapid change over the holiday as Republic Bank and Trust, which is moving to take over bank products, said it was requested by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to have a February meeting about the future of its RAL business. Republic is moving to take over part of the business that has been dropped after Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was forced out by regulators.
Republic Increases Jackson Hewitt RAL Biz
- Thursday, 31 December 2009
- News
- Written by Kurt Martin
PARSIPPANY, N.J. - In the wake of the exit of Santa Barbara Bank and Trust from the refund loan business, tax services company Jackson Hewitt has reached an agreement under which Republic Bank & Trust would increase the amount of funds it provides for financial products to 45 percent in the 2010 tax season, up from 25 percent a year ago. The terms extend through Oct. 31, 2012.
QB Users to Intuit: Too Much Marketing
- Wednesday, 30 December 2009
- News
- Written by Kurt Martin
Intuit has scaled-back the in-product marketing communications features in QuickBooks 2010 after it heard from users that there were simply too many messages hitting them while using the popular low-cost accounting software package. Intuit said it had made a series of changes in response to the complaints in a patch for 2010 issued this week.
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Platform Rewrite Not Planned for Thomson Research Products
Rival CCH is in the middle of rolling out Intelliconnect, a new tax research platform that utilizes search technology being implemented across the business
of its parent Wolters Kluwer. And Thomson Reuters, has similar new platforms ready to hit its Legal and Markets divisions. But Thomson Reuters' Tax & Accounting business doesn't have a major research platform rewrite planned, according to Teresa Mackintosh, SVP of the CS Professional Suite.
Doc.it Suite 3.3
- Friday, 18 December 2009
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Auto-Forms Recognition feature in Doc.It Suite 3.3 detects documents produced by software applications such as tax preparation, bookkeeping and Microsoft office and the Universal Search function enables users to search across any Binder, where data files like Word, Excel and emails are managed.
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Intuit Intros Online Pro Tax Product
Intuit has officially introduced a Web-based professional tax preparation product that it has said earlier this year would been ready for use for tax season. The major news in this announcement was that Intuit revealed pricing for the product, which is not based on the same code base as either its desktop Lacerte or ProSeries tax packages.
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M&P's Block Press Releases: Now You See Them ...
In its relationship with H&R Block, accounting firm McGladrey & Pullen took a highly unusual course regarding the press releases issued about the firm's initial statement it would end its Administrative Services agreement with Block and then that it and Block had come to terms. It removed them from its Web site after posting them.
Read more...Job Losses Impact Paychex Revenue
The loss of jobs at client companies helped push Paychex revenue to $496.6 million for the second quarter ended November 30, down 5 percent from $524.2 million a year earlier. And the company reiterated its view that continued economic weakness would leave its revenue for the year ending May 31 off by 2 percent to 5 percent. However, CEO Jonathan Judge issued a statement that key indicators were stable for the second straight quarter.
PPC’s Guide to Going Concern
- Wednesday, 16 December 2009
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
PPC’s Guide to Going Concern helps evaluate clients’ viability 
and protect CPAs from lawsuits by bringing together analysis and tools to help the professional identity and evaluate going concern uncertainties in accordance with professional standards.
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