Payroll and Taxes Question?

I've recently purchased a coffee stand and I need to someone to take care of payroll and taxes. How much work will they be required to do and how much should they be payed? I've heard that it only takes about a couple hours a month to do all this. Maybe 5? Any advice?

If you only have one or two employees then it should not take the person long to process. I previously processed a payroll for 2000 employees and total time including garnishment checks was one full 8 hour day - I did not complete tax payments but just the reports however tax payments should not take long either.
The other 4 days to the week - was general employee changes, filing, shredding etc.

I am assuming you will not have alot of employees however if you will only have yourself - it should take a max of 8 hours for someone that is not totally expirienced. An expirienced person it should only take a few hours.

Pay will depend on who you hire as their expirience and where you live will determine that.

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Good luck,

Jim Kirby, CPA/PFS, CFP, CFS