Tax Practitioners
Important Payroll Tax Changes for 2011
News
Audit and Collection Information
General Information
What’s New (includes new and recently revised forms and publications)
Top 10 Forms and Publications
Contacts for Electronic Filing, Registration & Payment Methods
Additional Contacts
Other Links and Resources
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Audit and Collection Information
- CUIAB Precedent Decisions - used when deciding tax and benefit claim issues
- Employment Tax Audit Process (DE 231TA)
- Installment Agreements (DE 631P)
- Offers in Compromise (DE 631C)
- Personal Income Tax Adjustment Process (DE 231W)
- Power of Attorney Forms:
- Offers in Compromise (DE 631C)
- Reporting and Payment Following an Assessment for Misclassified Workers (DE 231MW)
- Settlements Program (DE 231SP)
- State Tax Liens (DE 631TL)
- Tax Audit Guidelines (DE 40)
- Withholding Tables (1998-2009)
General Information
- California System of Experience Rating (DE 231Z) - how UI rates are determined
- Changes to a Business
- DE 4 Print Version or Online Calculator
- EDD Tax News E-Mail Subscription List
- Emergency and Disaster Assistance
- Employment Tax Offices
- Holidays: California Official Holidays - offices closed
Legal Holidays - for tax deposit and report purposes - Independent Contractor Reporting
- Meals and Lodging
- New Employee Registry (New Hire Reporting)
- Paid Family Leave
- Reporting Requirements
- Taxpayer Assistance Center, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (PST)
(888) 745-3886 - Third-Party Contract Providers in the Courier and Other Industries
- UI Rates/Benefit Charges:
- Obtain your clients’ UI tax rates on diskette or CD-R. (916) 654-3889.
- Obtain your clients’ benefit charges on magnetic media. (916) 654-1257.
- Underground Economy Operations
- Unity of Enterprise (DE 231UE) - entity changes or related businesses may not require new employer account numbers
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)
Top 10 Forms and Publications in Alphabetical Order
- 2012 Withholding Tables: Method A (Wage Bracket Table Method)
- 2012 Withholding Tables: Method B (Exact Calculation Method)
- California Employer’s Guide (DE 44)
- Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate (DE 4) - Print Version or Online Calculator
- Payroll Tax Deposit Coupon (DE 88ALL)
- Quarterly Contribution Return and Report of Wages (DE 9)
- Quarterly Contribution Return and Report of Wages (Continuation) (DE 9C)
- Registration Form for Commercial Employers, Pacific Maritime, and Fishing Boats (DE 1)
- Report of Independent Contractors (DE 542)
- Report of New Employees (DE 34)
Top 10 Forms and Publications in Numerical Order
- (DE 1) - Registration Form for Commercial Employers, Pacific Maritime, and Fishing Boats
- (DE 4) - Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate - Print Version or Online Calculator
- (DE 9) - Quarterly Contribution Return and Report of Wages
- (DE 9C) - Quarterly Contribution Return and Report of Wages (Continuation)
- (DE 34) - Report of New Employees
- (DE 44) - California Employer’s Guide
- (DE 88ALL) - Payroll Tax Deposit Coupon
- (DE 542) - Report of Independent Contractors
- (2012 Method A) - 2012 Wage Bracket Withholding Tables
- (2012 Method B) - 2012 Exact Calculation Withholding Tables
Contacts for Electronic Filing, Registration and Payment Methods
- Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT):
- Register for the e-Services for Business or contact the Taxpayer Assistance Center at (888) 745-3886.
- EFT debit payments, call the EFT Helpline at (916) 654-9130.
- EFT ACH debit payments by telephone, call (800) 554-7500 to make a payment.
- Reporting agents and payroll services registered with the State’s data collector, see the Electronic Funds Transfer Bulk Filer Setup Guide (DE 154) or call the EFT Helpline at (916) 654-9130.
- Pay taxes by major credit card.
Official Payments Corp.
(800) 2PAY-TAX (272-9829)
Additional Contacts
- Account Adjustments for School Employees Fund (SEF) employers: (916) 653-5380
- Account Adjustments for other employers: (916) 654-7600
- Adding or Deleting Agent From Employer/Clients: (916) 654-8798 or (916) 654-8805
- Address Changes for SEF employers: (916) 653-5380
- Address Changes for other employers: (916) 654-7041; press 1, 4
- Alternate Forms Coordinator: (916) 255-0649
- Benefit Charges Petitions: (916) 654-8690
- Charges to Reimbursable Employer Accounts: (916) 653-5846
- Counseling Services: (916) 654-7263 or (916) 654-9549
- Duplicate Accounts: (916) 654-9016
- Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): (916) 654-9130
- Employer Account Statement (DE 2176) for Reimbursable employers: (916) 653-5846
- Employer Account Statement (DE 2176) for SEF employers: (916) 653-5380
- Employer Account Statement (DE 2176) for Other employers: (916) 654-7600
- Fraud Tip Hotline: (800) 229-6297
- Independent Contractor Reporting (ICR): (916) 657-0529
- Internet Independent Contractor Reporting (iICR): (916) 653-0691
- Internet New Employee Registry (iNER): (916) 653-0691
- New Employee Registry (NER): (916) 657-0529
- Overpayments: (916) 654-7600
- Power of Attorney: (916) 654-7263 or (916) 654-9549
- Quarterly Contribution Return and Report of Wages (Continuation) (DE 9C) Wage-Related Questions: (916) 654-9018
- Registration for new/reinstated SEF employers: (916) 653-5380 or Fax (916) 653-5576
- Registration for new/reinstated other employers: (916) 654-8798 or (916) 654-8805, or Fax (916) 654-9211
- Reimbursable Employer Protest Letter Status: (916) 653-5846
- Reserve Account Transfers: (916) 654-3889
- Tax Rate Information: (916) 653-7795
- Taxpayer Advocate Office: (866) 594-4177
- UI Rate Petitions: (916) 654-3097
- Unity of Enterprise (UE) Changes for Vertical UE (Sole to Corporation, GP to Sole, etc.): (916) 654-7041; press 1, 6
- Unity of Enterprise (UE) Changes for Horizontal UE (2 or more businesses united by control, operation, and use): (888) 745-3886
Other Links and Resources
California:
California Tax Service Center - One-Stop tax assistance from California’s tax agencies
Metavante® Payment System
Industrial Relations - Labor Law, Occupational Safety & Health, Workers’ Compensation
Federal:
Important Links
- Register as an Employer
- Rates and Withholding
- e-Services for Business
- Reporting Requirements
- Forms and Publications
Top Links This Month
- Forms and Publications
- File and Pay Taxes
- e-Services for Business Information
- Rates and Withholding
- Am I Required to Register as an Employer?
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