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U.S. small business employment increased 0.11 percent in January, while overall revenue dropped 0.4 percent in December, according to Intuit.

Employers added 192,000 jobs in the private sector this month, according to payroll giant ADP, with small businesses showing the largest job gains.

XCM's Kim Hogan and Intacct's channel leader Taylor Macdonald urge practitioners, resellers, and even vendors to pay closer attention to what goes in to hiring and taking on new business rather than just the beginning and the end result.

Preparers who add more employees during tax season -- especially employees new to a practice -- must develop standards of communication and management, according to the Income Tax School’s white paper, “Leveling the Playing Field: How to Compete with the National Firms.”

Red Wing Software has created a report tool within its CenterPoint Payroll Software designed to track employee status for the upcoming Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requirement that employers with 50 or more full time employers must offer health coverage.

Electronic filing and payroll and employee form provider Aatrix Software Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with BGTax Forms to provide W-2/1099 eFiling services via the Aatrix Payroll eFile Center to their customers.

Ernst & Young is hosting a three-day leadership development event in New York this week to attract more young accounting students from minority backgrounds to join the firm.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 155,000 jobs in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but that was not enough to lower the unemployment rate of 7.8 percent as the pace of hiring appeared to slacken after strong gains in November.

The average paycheck size grew 0.1 percent in December, according to payroll processor SurePayroll, although month-over-month hiring dipped 0.1 percent.

Payroll giant ADP reported Thursday that private sector employment increased by 215,000 jobs from November to December, driven in part by construction jobs in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Even though President Obama indicated only last Friday that the fiscal cliff deal likely to be produced by the January 1 deadline would be a basic package, lawmakers managed to come out with a surprisingly comprehensive set of tax provisions, some with long-lasting effects.

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired “certain” assets of Diversified Industries, Inc. for an undisclosed amount.

Payroll services giant ADP said Wednesday that it has been monitoring the fiscal cliff deal and has been in constant contact with the Internal Revenue Service regarding the changes in tax rates.

Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees created 15,000 jobs in December, according to Intuit, a 0.99 percent increase over November.

Firms continue wooing skilled prospects with steady salary bumps

The Internal Revenue Service released new income tax withholding tables for 2013 late Monday to reflect the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts and the more recent payroll tax cuts of 2011 and 2012, but noted that the guidance would be modified if Congress acts.

Kansas-based accounting firm Mize Houser & Company has already begun adjusting its payroll withholding tables in anticipation of the expiration of the payroll tax cut at the end of the year.

A new company aims to match up accounting contractors with potential employers.