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June 2019 Compliance Updates
APS reports on relevant, impactful compliance updates each month to help keep you at the top of your compliance game. Updates this month include state and local changes as well as updates to underpayment interest rates. Here are your June compliance updates:

IRS To Stop Accepting Faxing For Employer Tax Transcripts

Publication 15-T to Help Calculate Withholdings in 2020

Third Quarter Tax Rates Decrease

New 2020 Form W-4 to be Released

Updated Specifications for Filing Form W-2 Electronically

EEOC New Wage Collection Online Portal to Open July
Wyoming
Wyoming is set to launch an online portal for filing unemployment tax filing and payments starting May 23, 2019. Employers will be able to pay unemployment tax and file the following forms electronically:
- Wyoming Quarterly UI/WC Summary Report (WYO-056)
- Wyoming Employee Wage Listings (WYO-078
The current employer portal, Wyoming Internet Reporting for Employers will be unavailable for filing starting May 15, 2019.

State Unemployment Tax Rates

State Unemployment Wage Bases
New Colorado Law Deems Failure to Pay Wages a Theft
Colorado passed a new law reclassifying failure to pay wages as theft. The measure (H.B. 1267) explains that employers refusing to pay a wage claim, falsely denying a wage claim with the intent to not pay, or underpaying the claim or to harass or defraud the person owed the wage is classified as a theft that could be treated as a petty offense, misdemeanor, or felony if the amount of unpaid wages exceeds $2,000. The law will take effect on January 1, 2020.

State Underpayment Interest Rates

Chicago, Illinois May Increase Minimum Wage

Electronic Filing Becomes Mandatory in Colorado

Minimum Wage Changes for Colorado Home-Care Providers

Illinois Passes Budget and New Graduated Income Tax Bill

New Hampshire Paid Family Leave
New Hampshire’s governor issued a veto letter for a paid family and medical leave insurance bill due to the bill’s funding mechanism. The bill would have required all public and private employers in New Hampshire to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave per year to care for a newborn, adopted or foster child; for their own illness; to care for a sick relative or military veteran, or to handle “any qualifying exigency arising from the foreign deployment with the Armed Forces.” The governor proposed a paid family medical leave plan that is income-tax free.

Louisiana Updates Unclaimed Wages Filing Policy
New Jersey Reaffirms Worker-Status Standard
New Jersey’s commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development issued a response to the federal Labor Department Opinion Letter (FLSA2019-6). The letter stated that those working for a virtual marketplace company may be considered independent contractors after the federal labor agency’s six-factor test finds economic independence between the provider and the company. The state’s commissioner reaffirmed that New Jersey will continue presuming that workers are employees unless a three-part test can classify them as independent contractors.

Massachusetts Delays Paid Family Leave Program

New York Waterfront Commission lowers Payroll Tax Rate

Nevada Payroll Tax Rate Bill & Payroll Cards

Philadelphia Wage Taxes to Drop

Ohio Regional Income Tax Agency to Add Five Municipalities
Washington signed a new bill (SHB 1155) into law on May 8, 2019, that grants nurses and certain clinical technicians working at hospitals to get guaranteed meal and rest breaks. The new law requires most hospitals to provide uninterrupted meal and rest breaks unless an emergency or unavoidable situation occurs. Any rest break that’s interrupted before 10 minutes has passed, must result in an additional 10-minute break at the earliest reasonable time.

Oklahoma Filing and Payment Deadline Extended
Washington signed a new bill (SHB 1155) into law on May 8, 2019, that grants nurses and certain clinical technicians working at hospitals to get guaranteed meal and rest breaks. The new law requires most hospitals to provide uninterrupted meal and rest breaks unless an emergency or unavoidable situation occurs. Any rest break that’s interrupted before 10 minutes has passed, must result in an additional 10-minute break at the earliest reasonable time.

Oregon Disabled Workers to Receive Full Minimum Wage

Texas Wage Payment Options and Minimum Wage

Employers in Wisconsin Receive W-2 Penalty Emails

New Oregon Bill Increases Garnishments

Two Texas Cities Establish New Sick Leave Law

Washington Proposes Increases to Salary Threshold
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