Hunting Season
Feds try to protect the little guy from payroll tax predators.
You hire a payroll firm to take care of paying employment taxes to the IRS. You send them the money, and they pass it on to the feds. Right? Well, not always. Therein lies the genesis of Sen. Olympia Snowe's (R-ME) amendment to the Tax Administration Good Government Act (H.R. 1528), which passed the Senate in May. The amendment gives the IRS tools to go after payroll/accounting firms that steal a client's employment tax payments, and protection to firms that hire those rogue firms.
In the first and, so far, last instance of the IRS and the Justice Department taking a payroll company to court, a federal court in Salt Lake City issued a preliminary injunction in April 2003 appointing a receiver to shut down a company called Provident Management Group. Provident allegedly failed to file at least 282 federal employment tax returns for their customers, and failed to make more than $2 million in required employment tax deposits on their behalf.
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