05/01/2014
The U.S. Supreme Court has resolved a split among circuit courts with a late-March ruling that employer severance payments to employees are FICA-taxable as wages. Employers must, therefore, remit their portion of Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) withholding taxes for those payments.
05/01/2014
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of rulings that declared two of the nation’s most far-reaching anti-immigrant statutes unconstitutional. The towns of Farmer’s Branch, Texas, and Hazleton, Pa., had adopted ordinances punishing landlords who rented to “illegal immigrants.” The Hazleton ordinance also targeted employers that hired illegals.