The 2023 Withholding Tax Tables: How Take-Home Pay Changes
The second phase of the TRAIN law's income tax cuts took effect this January, and every payslip you issue this month reflects it. Here is what moved, and what to tell the employees who ask.
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The second phase of the TRAIN law's income tax cuts took effect this January, and every payslip you issue this month reflects it. Here is what moved, and what to tell the employees who ask.
The TRAIN Law's second set of income tax rates takes over on January 1, 2023. Here is what payroll officers should settle in December so the first January run comes out correct.
The full-year computation is simple; the edge cases are where disputes start. Here is how prorated 13th month pay actually works for mid-year hires, resigned staff, and employees who took unpaid leave.
A point of sale system is worth having only if a counter transaction becomes a stock movement and an accounting entry at the same moment. Here is what Philippine retailers should test before they buy.
Premium pay is where most Philippine payroll errors live. This guide walks through regular holidays versus special days, how night differential is actually counted, and why stacked premiums have to be sequenced rather than added.
A practical look at how the regional wage boards set the minimum wage, what a wage order actually obliges an employer to do, and how to roll a new daily rate through a live payroll without rebuilding it.
SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG appear on the same payslip but are computed three different ways, with the cost shared differently in each. Here is what each fund charges, who pays which part, and where payroll quietly goes wrong.
A practical comparison of paper logbooks, spreadsheets and biometric terminals for Philippine workplaces, focused on where each one loses accuracy and how that loss shows up in the payroll run.
January closes the previous tax year for payroll. Here is what BIR Form 2316 certifies, the order the January deadlines fall in, and where year-end reconciliation usually goes wrong.
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