T Weber & Associates

Identity theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), was the top complaint the FTC received for the past 15 years, increasing 47% from 2014 to 2015 as a result of a massive increase in tax-related identity theft.
Identity thieves have become so skilled and clever that airtight prevention is impossible.
Thieves can penetrate encrypted personnel records and email exchanges.
And the costs of identity theft to victims are grossly underestimated and often focus solely on the monetary value of the theft.

Increasingly, CPAs are receiving requests from clients, lenders, loan brokers, health insurance providers and various other agencies to confirm client information.
In most cases CPAs are asked to sign a confirmation letter containing specific language, a verification statement or a certification form.
The most common type of requests are associated with mortgage loan applications of tax return preparation clients who are self-employed.
By obtaining a comfort letter, lenders or brokers attempt to shift responsibility for confirming the accuracy of the information to the borrower's CPA.

The old Form W-4 accounted for multiple jobs using detailed instructions and worksheets that many employees may have overlooked.
Step 2 of the redesigned Form W-4 lists three different options you should choose from to make necessary withholding adjustments.
Note that, to be accurate, you should furnish a 2020 Form W-4 for all of these jobs.
Employees who have submitted a Form W-4 in any year before 2020 will not be required to submit a new form merely because of the redesign.
Employers can continue to compute withholding based on the information from the employee's most recently submitted Form W-4.

Overtime is payable at the rate of 1.5 times the employee's regular hourly rate for hours worked in excess of 40 in any week except where otherwise specifically provided by wage order.
Employees in the occupations found below are covered by this wage order and regulations and must be paid not less than the statutory minimum wage rate.
Exempt from the statutory minimum wage rate are full-time students employed by the college or university at which they are enrolled at not less than 85% of the effective minimum wage rate; outside sales person; sales person of motor vehicles; part time employees primarily engaged in the care and tending of children in the home of the employer; and minors under 18 (except that minors under 18 in the first processing of farm products, hotels, motels, restaurants, retail, beauty culture, laundry, cleaning, dyeing, light manufacturing and apparel occupations are covered by the wage order rates as above and vocational school graduates with special permits under the Child Labor Law are covered by the statutory rate).

The law, which takes effect in six months, requires employers to give workers one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, with an annual cap of 40 hours.
Most workers in New Jersey will be eligible for paid sick leave, according to New Jersey Working Families, a political organization that helped drive the bill's passage.
Employers may not retaliate against workers who use their earned time off.
No.
The public employer does not get a blanket exemption from coverage under the Earned Sick Leave Law for all of its employees, because some or even most of its employees are provided with sick leave at full pay under a law or rule of New Jersey other than the Earned Sick Leave Law.