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e-News for Payroll Professionals July 25, 2019

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Issue Number:  2019-07

Inside This Issue


  1. Summer reminder: Review Security Summit Checklist to help secure your data
  2. Second drafts of 2020 Form W-4 and Pub 15-T coming soon
  3. Reminder of upcoming MeF system outage
  4. Draft forms, instructions and publications on IRS.gov

  1.  Summer reminder: Review Security Summit Checklist to help secure your data

Cybercriminals don’t take vacations – shore up data security before taking your vacation this summer.

To help in doing this, the IRS and its Security Summit partners have developed a new Tax Security 2.0 “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist that spells out the steps you can take to secure your computer systems and information.

On July 16, the first of five news releases highlighting the details of each step on the checklist posted. Additional releases will drop through August. We’ve linked to the steps that are released as of this publication’s date.

Five steps to better security:

  1. Deploy the “Security Six” measures (July 16)
  2. Create a data security plan (July 23)
  3. Educate yourself about key email scams – including ransomware
  4. Learn to recognize the signs of client data theft and how to report it
  5. Draft a data theft recovery plan

Look for links to all the news releases in the Aug. edition of e-News for Payroll Professionals.

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  2.  Second drafts of 2020 Form W-4 and Pub 15-T coming soon

The second early release draft of the 2020 Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, is coming soon. A couple of weeks after that, the second draft of the new Publication 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods, will follow.

The IRS will issue final versions of the 2020 Form W-4 and Pub 15-T in November after receiving the annually adjusted values used in these products.

See FAQs on the early release of the 2020 Form W-4 for more information.

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  3.  Reminder of upcoming MeF system outage

On Aug. 3, 2019, from 12:01 a.m. through noon Aug. 5, 2019 the IRS Modernized E-File system (MeF) will be shutdown to upgrade to a new system.

Please do not make any submissions during the outage period. Look for a Quick Alert bulletin once it’s back online.

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  4.  Draft forms, instructions and publications on IRS.gov

Forms:

  • Form 941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return
  • Form 941 (PR), Planilla para la Declaracion Federal TRIMESTRAL del Patrono
  • Form 941-SS, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return – American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Form 943, Employer's Annual Federal Tax Return for Agricultural Employees

Instructions:

  • Inst 943, Instructions for Form 943, Employer’s Annual Federal Tax Return for Agricultural Employees
  • Inst 944, Instructions for Form 944, Employer's Annual Federal Tax Return
  • Inst 945, Instructions for Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld Federal Income Tax

Publications:

  • Pub 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods

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