Tax Levies and Creditor Garnishments Maintaining Compliance and Eliminating Problems

Why Should You Attend:

Tax levies and creditor garnishments can generate some of the most stressful and emotional situations encountered in payroll. Penalties for violations of compliance rules can be extremely costly. Incorrectly managing the conflicting interests of the parties involved can increase confusion and lead to serious financial and personal consequences.

These situations are extremely common in today's payroll functions and those responsible for the task need to be prepared. Knowing proper procedures, regulations and priorities required by the numerous federal and state agencies governing these garnishments can help to reduce or eliminate the emotional and financial toll. Understanding what you must, can and cannot do when handling garnishments can also help you effectively communicate what is and is not required or allowable within your company's responsibilities and actions with all parties involved.

The reality is that all of the people and entities involved in these situations expect action from the payroll department. And it often falls to the payroll department to catch and correct any errors that have been made by anyone along the way. By ensuring that you have the right knowledge, you can have the confidence to handle tax levies and creditor garnishments correctly and efficiently.

This webinar covers the complexity in handling of and compliance with tax levies and creditor garnishments by the payroll department. Priorities between conflicting entities as well as federal and state compliance requirements are highlighted as well as tips for reducing processing time and costs.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

The Federal requirements a payroll department must know on each type of garnishment

• How state requirements affect garnishments
• How to handle terminated employees in regard to garnishments
• How to determine the withholding under a federal tax levy
• Proper processing for student loans and creditor garnishments
• Best practices for communicating with employees and issuing parties
• How to calculate the withholding and prioritize the order of distribution when an employee has more than one type of garnishment
• Best practices for processing garnishments in the payroll department

Who will benefit:

• Payroll Professionals
• Human Resources and Accounting Personnel
• Business Owners
• Lawmakers
• Attorneys, or any individual or entity that must deal with the complexities and technicalities of the payroll process

Instructor Profile:

Vicki M. Lambert, CPP is president and academic director of The Payroll Advisor™ a firm specialized in the training of payroll professionals. With over 30 years of hands-on experience in all facets of payroll functions as well as over 20 years as a trainer and author, Ms. Lambert has become the most sought-after and respected voice in the practice and management of payroll issues. She has conducted open market training seminars on payroll issues across the United States that have been attended by executives and professionals from some of the most prestigious firms in business today.

She has lectured extensively on payroll administration and compliance issues for clients that have included Automatic Data Processing, CCH Incorporated, Ceridian Employer Services, and The Employer Group. She has also served as a consultant and in-house trainer for businesses such as Sun Microsystems, Paychex, Fox Studios, Disney, County of Riverside, and City of Hesperia.

She conceived of, created the teaching and student manual, and coordinated the program for the certificate in Payroll Practice and Management that has been offered on site through the Extended Education Offices of Chapman University, California State University Long Beach; National University; and California State University, Northridge. Through her innovation, the Payroll Practice and Management Online Program is now being offered at Chapman University in CA, Bucks County Community College in PA, and in over 1000 other colleges and universities nationwide through Ed2Go/Cengage Learning/Gatlin Education Services.

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