Employment Tax Advisory Services

Partner with Aprio to strengthen your employment and payroll tax operations. Our team proactively identifies opportunities for payroll refunds and can help you maintain compliance with everything from transactional assistance and controversy resolution to tax return preparation.

Overview

Get the Assistance You Need in the Complex Area of Employment Taxes

As a business owner, your focus should be on managing future growth, not employment taxes and payroll issues. 

With over 40 years of experience, Aprio’s dedicated Employment Tax team can help you seamlessly navigate the complexities of payroll and employment taxes, thereby keeping your business in compliance with federal and—where applicable—state and local tax laws and regulations. 

Leverage our deep knowledge of payroll and employment taxes while also gaining access to our network of adjacent services, from compensation and benefits to global payroll, outsourced payroll, and human resource services.

Who We Serve

Helping Businesses Streamline Compliance, Reduce Risk, and Tackle Payroll Challenges

Payroll tax issues can arise in any business that hires employees, regardless of size or sector. Aprio's Employment Tax team provides assistance to organizations across a wide range of industries, supporting everything from small businesses, large corporations, and nonprofit employers to private equity firms and companies undergoing a merger or acquisition. 

Commercial Employers

Aprio provides cross-industry guidance on compensation taxation, growth planning for expanding businesses, refund recapture for M&A or reorganization events, worker classification analysis, and policy taxation matters.

Nonprofit Employers

Nonprofit organizations typically struggle with some of the unique employment tax requirements for both taxation and reporting placed on them. We help nonprofits navigate federal and state requirements, in addition to providing all other necessary compliance services.

Multistate Employers

Having employees in multiple jurisdictions can create specific challenges in the payroll space. Aprio can help you identify gaps in your current reporting, bring your business into proper compliance, and assist in your geographic expansion.

Acquisitive or Reorganizing Employers

If your business has or will be experiencing an internal reorganization or external acquisition, we can help identify refunds from past transactions or provide savings advice and compliance services with respect to prospective deals.

How We Help

Easily Gain Employment and Payroll Tax Operations Compliance

Aprio’s team of qualified CPAs and business advisory professionals provides trusted guidance and proactive assistance with a variety of employment tax services, including:

Federal/state employment tax controversy cassistance
We can provide assistance, representation, and guidance around federal and state employment tax controversies, including Employee Retention Credit (ERC), Worker Classification/Independent Contractor, and general jurisdictional audits.
Federal/state penalty notices
We help businesses respond to and clear penalty notices and assessments by investigating root cause, working with tax authorities to remediate issues, and designing ongoing compliance resolutions.
Mergers & acquisitions refund recovery
For businesses that have undergone prior year M&A activity, our employment tax team can help you recover overpaid federal and state payroll taxes. A cost-free feasibility study can identify potential refunds, and our recovery process can help you capture them.
Prospective transaction services
Our team can help plan and implement the payroll tax aspects of prospective internal or external transactions, help mitigate duplicate taxation, and facilitate proper compliance.
State payroll tax reporting & remote work compliance
With the nature of today’s remote and mobile workforce, it's important to align a business's state and local tax reporting with its employee footprint. We can help analyze state payroll reporting methods, remediate identified gaps, and ensure proper compliance on a forward-looking basis.
Fringe benefit & compensation taxability guidance
The tax categorization of compensation and fringe benefit payments can be extremely complex. Aprio can help determine taxability and reporting requirements with respect to fringe benefits and other compensation elements.
Worker classification
Both the IRS and state taxing authorities have well-defined, although very complex, standards with respect to considering independent contractors as employees. Our team can help determine the accuracy of your current position, adjust where appropriate, and, if necessary, represent your business on taxing authority audit.
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
Through our alliance partner, we can help identify, increase, and capture Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) for businesses that employ certain individuals who face employment barriers, including veterans. This potentially-lucrative credit can be identified through an initial cost-free analysis and can provide prospective income tax savings.
Federal/state employment tax controversy assistance
Federal/state penalty notices
Mergers & acquisitions refund recovery
Prospective transaction services
State payroll tax reporting & remote work compliance
Fringe benefit & compensation taxability guidance
Worker classification
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)

Why Aprio

More Than 70 Years of Experience in the Employment and Payroll Tax Space

Aprio is well-equipped to navigate your employment tax and payroll issues. Our team is comprised of seasoned professionals who know what questions to ask in order to guide you through employment and payroll tax compliance issues and identify ways for you to save.

Years of experience providing federal, state, and local payroll tax services

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Years of experience navigating the IRS from the inside

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of state and local registrations completed for client expansions and M&A transactions

Leadership

Highly-Proficient Leaders in Federal, State, and Local Employment Taxation

Aprio’s Employment Tax Services team includes leaders with a combined total of 75 years experience working in the federal, state and local payroll tax space, including two decades of internal IRS experience. Our team has recovered more than $250M in overpaid federal and state payroll taxes.

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