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July 2022

Reminder TRA File Submission for Payoff Payrolls

Be sure to upload your July 2022 and August 2022 payoff payroll files by July 15, 2022.   You are not required to make payment until the normal due date. This allows TRA to post the July and August payoff payroll information to the 2022 fiscal year in a timely manner. Submit your “true” July and August payroll files as you normally would.
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TRA Rate Change Update

TRA rate change is effective 7/1/2022 for the employer share. CHECK DATE determines which TRA rate to use:For the employer share Fiscal Year 2023-7/1/2022-6/30/2023 – 8.55%For the employee share Fiscal Year 2023-7/1/2022-6/30/2023 – 7.50%
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Are You Using Your SMART HR 2022 FYE Checklist?

Don’t forget to refer to the checklist for items you will need to complete in July. Districts that have July health insurance renewals should be building their July ACA info rows. It is much easier to build them in July than it is to build them later in the year!
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IRS Increases Mileage Rate for Remainder of 2022

Rate 1/1/2022 through 6/30/2022 is 58.5/cents/mileRate 7/1/2022 through 12/31/2022 is 62.5/cents/mile
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June 2022
 SmartHR Tip

SmartHR Tip

Is there clean-up that you can do in your database?  For example, terminate employees that haven’t been paid in the last 18 months. This will help keep your database up to date!
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TRA Rate Change

CHECK DATE determines which TRA rate to use for employer shareFiscal Year 2022-7/1/2021-6/30/2022 – 8.34%Fiscal Year 2023-7/1/2022-6/30/2023 – 8.55% When you calculate your payoff payroll, please review your proof to ensure the correct TRA rate is being used for the employer share. FOR CHECKS DATED JUNE the calculation should use 8.34% for employer share of TRA.  FOR CHECKS DATED JULY OR AUGUST the calculation should use 8.55% for the employer share of TRA. 
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May 2022

Great Resource

MN Department of Labor and Industry is a great resource! Check out their website for the Wage and Hour Bulletin for topics like Minnesota’s payment of wage laws, how often an employer should pay employees, and other paycheck laws. Questions? Labor Standards serves the people of Minnesota by providinginformation about the state's wage, hour and employment laws.Phone:  651-284-5075 or 800-342-5354Email: dli.laborstandards@state.mn.usWebsite: www.dli.mn.gov/laborlaw
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SmartHR Tip

SmartHR Tip

Remind employees that switching banks is not a good idea this time of year because of summer payoffs.
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April 2022

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

*File Submission- All 1095 files have either been accepted or accepted with errors. If you have errors be sure to email Mara with your correction information. *New January Rows- Have you built your 2022 ACA information rows yet?  If your health plan has a July renewal, then your administrative period is May and June. You need to be reviewing your ACA information to determine if you need to be offering insurance to employees that worked on average >130 hours/month during yo...
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March 2022
SmartHR Tip

SmartHR Tip

Is it Budget Time? Let SmartHR's Budget Module Help You OutAre you thinking about working on next year’s budget?  SmartHR’s Budget Module can help project next year’s payroll budget complete with employee step, salary and benefit increases.  This module also creates a file that can be imported into SMART Finance.  All of the appropriate finance account codes for salary and benefits will be used based on the employee’s current setup in payroll....
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