Bryan Dear’s Blog

The Stimulus Bill is very much on the mind of payroll software programers these days. There are new tax tables to create in a fairly short space of time and then there is the COBRA benefit reduction. This benefit pays an involuntary terminated employee 65% of their COBRA premium up to nine months. The employer pays the remaining amount and receives a tax credit for a like amount on their quarterly payroll tax form – Form 941. It promises to create some interesting times in our world of payroll.

Any time we rush to create legislation like this, we will inevitably create holes for all us to pitch into unexpectedly. There will be people trying to take advantage of the loopholes, legal or otherwise. There will be cries of foul and unfair. There will be mistakes – many mistakes – that will cause financial reparations. And yet, it is the way of our world. We can complain or we can work to do the best with what we have.

My main hope is that this Stimulus Program accomplishes its main objectives.

Bryan

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.     - Joey Adams

I know nothing about the stock market. It goes up unexpectedly and it goes down and down (especially now) without a seeming end in sight. I just know I’m going to stick with my plan of steadily saving and hoping I can outlast this down market (think five years).

I do know our business – payroll processing and time and attendance tracking – and I know we help a lot of employers save time and energy while providing peace of mind. One of the great reasons to work here is because of the thanks we receive from our clients over and over. It is not a thankless task, but a rewarding one – and that’s why we have such a positive energy here.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully

I am blessed to live in Durango, Colorado. Here we have mountains to play in winter and summer and access to rivers and deserts for another six months of the year. Add in the good fortune to have created a successful business that allows me to live here along with my family makes me feel like one of the luckiest people on the planet. And that business is the payroll service business.

Payroll doesn’t necessarily sound exciting or sexy. It certainly doesn’t attract a crowd when I mention it’s my livelihood. However, it is very satisfying. We form meaningful and trusting relationships with businesses and organizations across the strata of everything under the sun.

Everyday we deal with clients that have one employee to hundreds of employees, in retail and in wholesale, with occupations including helicopter pilots, CPAs, banks, plumbers, landscapers – in short about every occupation on the planet. We get an inside and fascinating glimpse on so many different employers I feel we get to know what makes our economy tick.

So keep ticking.

Cheers,

Bryan Dear

www.payrolldept.biz