Payroll

When the ball dropped in Times Square at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it did more than signal the start of another year. It also officially closed the books on several significant tax breaks for individuals and small business owners. Unless these provisions are resurrected by a bipartisan Congress – no sure bet – they won’t be available in 2014.

Real Business Solutions, which makes payroll and 1099 tax products, has released its 2014 Payroll Mate payroll preparation and reporting system, which includes enhanced "import / export" capability "from / to" leading accounting and payroll processing applications.

Effective January 1, 2014, New Jersey's minimum wage will rise by $1 to $8.25 an hour, boosting the paychecks of more than 250,000 New Jerseyans and bumping up costs for businesses with low-wage workers.

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Even as California and the rest of the nation move toward raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour, San Jose's lowest-paid workers are about to get even bigger paychecks and should continue to earn more than their peers for years to come.

All extended federal benefits ended last week because the budget deal reached by U.S. Senate and House negotiators didn't include extension of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. The added benefits were authorized in 2008 and extended 11 times as the recession and its effects dragged on.

Why does one person see work primarily as a means to a paycheck, while another sitting in the next cubicle expects work to provide genuine fulfillment?

With the countdown to resolution season rapidly approaching its end, the leading credit card comparison website CardHub.com today announced 5 Money-Saving New Year’s Resolutions in order to help people begin 2014 on the right financial foot.