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Report Link IRS to Audit 6,000 Companies to Enforce Employment Tax Compliance.
Baker Hostetler LLP - November 11, 2009
In the next few months, the IRS will launch comprehensive tax examinations of approximately 6,000 random U.S. companies as part of its National Research Program on employment tax compliance. In addition to closing the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of taxes collected and the amount owed, the IRS hopes the program will help it assess its own performance and generate income. This is one of the agency’s biggest audit campaigns in the area in more than 25 years.
Report Link IRS Launching Employment Taxes Audit – 6,000 Employers Will Be Receiving Notices Shortly – Is Your Company Ready?
Littler Mendelson, P.C. - September 17, 2009
The Internal Revenue Services (IRS) has announced that beginning in November 2009 it will launch its latest National Research Program (NRP). This NRP will be focused on conducting detailed employment taxes examinations. Approximately 6,000 or more employers are to be randomly selected for audit. In addition to potential “assessments,” these audits will provide the IRS with the statistical sample of overall employment taxes compliance. The audit program will be conducted over a three year period with at least 2,000 employment tax audits conducted per year. Audits likely will include both for profit and non-profit employers.
Report Link Hospitality Labor Letter: "Good Morning. I'm From The Labor Department..."
Fisher & Phillips, LLP - June 05, 2008
The unprecedented explosion continues in the filing of federal Fair Labor Standards Act wage-hour lawsuits. But enforcement statistics for the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, taken together with the Division's enforcement priorities for the foreseeable future, emphasize another reason why every industry employer needs to ensure that its practices comply with the law: DOL investigations.
Report Link Hospitality Update: Applebee's Automated Timekeeping Leads To Lawsuit.
Fisher & Phillips, LLP - October 03, 2007
Gerald Fast has worked at two Applebee's restaurants since 1998. He has held many different jobs: cook, server, host, expediter, and bartender. Sometimes he rotated these duties during short time periods, but from May, 2005, he has worked almost exclusively as a bartender. While serving customers, Fast had the opportunity to earn tips, so Applebee's used a "tip credit" when calculating his pay to ensure he made at least the minimum wage for each hour he worked.
Report Link Department of Labor Targeted Compliance Inspections Continue in 2001.
Jackson Lewis LLP - May 01, 2001
Discusses DOL's initiative, begun in 1997, to audit nursing homes, which willcontine in 2001, according to announcements by the DOL's Wage and Hour Division.
Report Link beware - the dol may be coming to your door.
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - March 01, 2001
Discusses the Department of Labor's investigatory process and suggests ways to manage liability in the face of an investigation.

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