Mr.Mark Schwartz

Area Of Expertise : Human Resources
15 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Human Resources

Mark Schwartz is an employment tax specialist and has over 15 years of employment tax experience as an independent consultant and as a payroll tax auditor with the State of California. He has managed an audit caseload of 20 ongoing audits, from small home-based businesses to large multi-national corporations. He is expert at defining regulatory and statutory requirements from local, State and Federal government agencies; and helping the average businessperson understand what that mean to their business. He has processed weekly and bi-weekly payroll checks plus tax forms for businesses with hourly as well as exempt workers, multistate operations and a wide variety of benefits. Mr. Schwartz provides consulting services encompassing payroll processing and payroll tax issues. These include payroll tax minimization, payroll tax compliance reviews, independent contractor studies, use of electronic transfers, deductions, benefits, etc. Markhas represented both clients and the State in front of the State Appeals Board. 

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Live Webinar

New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update

1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization:  Can you name all the types of service providers you use?  Do you know which payments are ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
  • Aug 05, 2024
Live Webinar

Fringe Benefits - How to Keep a Happy Workforce While not Incurring Unnecessary Payroll and Income Tax Expense

There are lots of ways to reward workers other than wages. Smart businesses understand the two-way importance of helping employees out with things like education, commute help, health and wellness, etc. The IRS also recognizes the economically stabilizing resu ...

  • Intermediate
  • 75 Mins
  • Aug 19, 2024
Live Webinar

Employee Expense Reimbursement for 2024: Guide to IRS Compliance Incorporating the TC&JA

Employee expense reimbursements that aren't handled accurately can wind up being disallowed as expenses , or even considered as compensation by the IRS. If this happens, your company is on the hook for paying the associated payroll taxes - costing you more mo ...

  • Intermediate
  • 75 Mins
  • Aug 21, 2024
Live Webinar

Payroll and HR Recordkeeping

There are a myriad of state and federal legislative requirements for payroll and human resource recordkeeping. Thankfully, in the digital age, most if not all of the data is kept by companies in one form or another. The challenge is to have it available when ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 75 Mins
  • Sep 09, 2024
Live Webinar

Payroll Procedure Manuals Post Covid-19 - As Important As Ever

With the furious pace of regulation changes, it is most important that policy and procedure manuals keep up with them. This can ensure that staff and management perform payroll operations effectively and efficiently. We will discuss the logical reasons for kee ...

  • Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Sep 16, 2024
On-Demand Webinar

The NEW 2024 DOL FINAL RULE ON OVERTIME: How to Properly Calculate Overtime Due to Your Workers

Although the rules on exempt vs non-exempt employees have changed a few times in the past 10 years, overtime worked is, and has always been, overtime earned. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. But 1.5 time a worker’s hourly rate of pay is just the start of calculating o ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Payroll Deduction Do's and Dont's

From an employer's perspective, the rules can get complicated. Not withholding what we should has major consequences - as does deducting what we can't. If you have an organization of any size, you need to understand more than just federal and state tax withhol ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 75 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update

1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization:  Can you name all the types of service providers you use?  Do you know which payments are ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

The New W4 - How to help your employees navigate the sections for accurate withholdings

In 2021, The IRS significantly changed one of the simplest in all of payroll – the W4. The W4 is used by employees to tell employers how much FIT and SIT to withhold from their paychecks. The old form simply stated marital status and number of exemptions claim ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update

1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization:  Can you name all the types of service providers you use?  Do you know which payments are ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins