I’ve run payroll for hundreds of restaurants across Southwest Florida. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that restaurant owners who try to manage payroll themselves — or who use a generic payroll service that doesn’t understand the...
A Fort Myers restaurant owner called me last year after getting a notice from the IRS. He’d missed a payroll tax deposit by four days while dealing with a family emergency. Four days. The penalty was over $800 on a $20,000 payroll. He didn’t know the...
I spent nine years selling payroll for a national provider. I know how payroll pricing works — and how it is often presented so the real number only shows up on the invoice. If you’re a Fort Myers small business owner trying to figure out what payroll should...
Electing S-Corp status is one of the most popular tax strategies for Fort Myers small business owners. The math is straightforward: profit that flows through as distributions avoids self-employment tax. For an owner earning $150,000, that can mean saving...
I want to be upfront about something: this post is about my experience inside one of the biggest payroll companies in the country. I spent nine years at a national payroll provider — started as a Payroll Consultant, worked my way up to District Sales Manager. I worked...
