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Your payroll liabilities won’t reconcile
A payroll liability account is supposed to fill up and empty out. When it doesn’t, the leftover balance is telling you something specific — and the age of that balance tells you how serious it is.
Read it Payroll · June 13, 2026W-2 vs 1099: how to classify a worker (and why it matters)
Calling a worker a contractor doesn’t make them one — the IRS and states decide that by how the work actually happens. Misclassify, and the back taxes and penalties land on you. Here’s how the line really works.
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