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Speaker: Dayna J Reum
Speaker Designation: Director of Payroll Operations at Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
The form 941 is an essential form for all employers that pay employees and withhold federal and FICA (social security and Medicare) taxation. In recent years several changes to the 941 forms have made is difficult to understand. The importance of reconciliation and completed of not only the Form 941 but Schedule B is becoming increasingly important for employers to avoid costly disputes with the IRS resulting in penalty and interest.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused additional legislation to be passed that impacts the Form 941 these will be reviewed as well along with what has stopped and what are we continuing to report into 2023. Review of the latest updates and review of all the legislation that has changed the COVID credits that impact the Form 941 till current.
If you own a business and have employees, you must file a form 941 every quarter and must continue to do so even if there are no employees during some quarters. Seasonal employers who do not pay employee wages during one or more quarters, employers of household employees, and employers of agricultural employees are the only exceptions to this filing requirement.
Failure to file Form 941 on time may result in a penalty of 5% of the tax due with that return for each month or part of a month that the return is late. Depending on how many days you are late paying the correct amount, the IRS will charge you 2 to 15% of your underpayment.
This webinar will give you the tools to better be able to understand line by line of the Form 941.
Dayna currently is the director of payroll operations at a major medical center in Chicago and has been heavily involved in the payroll field for more than 20 years. She started as a payroll clerk at a small Tucson company but moved on to be a payroll team leader at Honeywell Inc. During her time at Honeywell Inc., she obtained her FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) through the American Payroll Association. Dayna has also received several merit awards for customer service acquisitions, and divestiture.
Dayna is no stranger to teaching; she has taught at the Metro Phoenix American Payroll Association meetings and at the Arizona State Payroll Conference. Topics include Payroll Basics, Global/Cultural Awareness, Immigration Basics for the Payroll Professional, Multi-State and Local Taxation and Quality Control for Payroll, and international and Canadian payroll.
She also serves on the National American Payroll Association the National Strategic Leadership Task Force, Government Affairs Task Force (PA Local tax subcommittee), and received a citation of merit for her service along with being a gold pin member of the APA. Dayna is also a CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) through the APA certified in HR hiring and firing practices and is a Six-Sigma Greenbelt.
