#remote-work
Tax compliance, payroll, and financial management guidance for businesses with remote and distributed teams
Tennessee's HB 1034 voids noncompetes for workers earning under $70,000 in annualized compensation as of July 1, 2026, and sets 2/3/5-year presumed-reasonable durations for everyone else. Here's how small employers should audit existing agreements, calculate the threshold, and shift to nonsolicitation and NDA protection.
Effective July 1, 2026, Tennessee voids noncompete agreements for workers earning under $70,000 in total annual earnings, making it the 13th U.S. jurisdiction to tie enforceability to a compensation threshold — a shift that turns compliance into a payroll-data problem for any business with employees, contractors, or franchisees in more than one state.
Superfluid and Sablier let DAOs pay contributors continuously by the second instead of on a pay date, which means wage expense must be accrued as it streams, not booked when a recipient withdraws — here's how to record it, including the fair-market-value and insolvency edge cases.
A standard homeowners policy caps business-property coverage around $1,500 and excludes business liability entirely, which is why most home-based businesses need a Business Owner's Policy (avg. $35/month) or a professional liability add-on.
A practical guide to surviving California FTB and New York residency audits after moving to Florida, Texas, or Nevada — the domicile and statutory residency tests, day-count documentation, equity compensation traps, and the convenience-of-the-employer rule.
Eight states tax remote workers as if they sat in the office. A 2026 guide to the convenience of the employer rule, the May 2025 Zelinsky decision, reciprocity agreements, resident credits, and what multi-state employers must withhold.
Section 988 of the Internal Revenue Code makes foreign-exchange gains and losses ordinary, not capital. Importers, exporters, and remote workers paid in euros or pounds get full ordinary-loss deductions with no $3,000 cap, a same-day election to convert forward-contract gains to capital, and a $200 per-transaction de minimis exception for personal travel currency.
Sixteen US jurisdictions run mandatory paid family and medical leave programs in 2026, with new benefits live in Minnesota, Maine, and Delaware, a 23% Washington premium hike to 1.13%, and a permanent Section 45S federal credit. This guide covers which states require withholding, how private plan exemptions work, how PFML coordinates with FMLA and ADA, and the W-2 Box 14 codes that break payroll when miscoded.
A side-by-side guide to Form 1116 (Foreign Tax Credit) and Form 2555 (Foreign Earned Income Exclusion) for expats and cross-border workers in 2026 — the $132,900 FEIE cap, the five-year revocation lock-in, the FTC stacking rule, and a worked example showing when each one actually saves money.
Seventeen states plus D.C. now require salary ranges in job postings, with thresholds and penalties that vary enough for one nationwide ad to violate three statutes. A field guide to the 2026 patchwork, the remote-posting traps, and how multi-state employers turn compliance into routine operating discipline.
How state income tax really works for remote employees who cross state lines: the convenience-of-the-employer rule used by seven states (including New York), which reciprocity agreements eliminate double taxation, day-counting evidence auditors accept, and the bookkeeping habits that keep multi-state returns predictable.
The 2026 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion lets qualifying Americans abroad exclude up to $132,900 of foreign-earned income on Form 2555. This guide details the physical presence and bona fide residence tests, the housing exclusion, FEIE vs. Foreign Tax Credit tradeoffs, and audit-ready documentation for expats and digital nomads.
