Payroll is more than just paying people’s baseline salaries. A payroll report is a document that provides valuable workforce insights, which employers use to verify their tax liabilities or crosscheck financial data. These reports are used in business decisions and to predict short-term right to long-term growth. As the name suggests, these reports are generated from the payroll process and are primarily related to manpower. It includes information such as compensation, working hours, overtime work hours, taxes withheld from wages, and employer tax contributions. These reports are also helpful during audits or preparing tax forms for the government and helps in assisting a payroll service provider with all the aspects of payroll reports.

Payroll summary reports:

A payroll summary is a general report, which gives a high-level overview of the company’s payroll activity. Payroll administrators enter a date range and can see pay information about a single employee, department, or workforce. The payroll summary reports include gross and net wages, tax withholdings, and other deductions. The employee’s records and data in the reports include

• Employee name, joining date, and end date
• Gross pay
• Net pay
• Employee/Employer taxes and contributions

Detailed payroll reports:

Business owners who want a granular, line-by-line view of an employee’s compensation history run a detailed payroll report. As with summary reports, detailed reports are available at the department or organization level. A detailed payroll report can be generated when a payroll summary is completed in a

The report contains the following information:

• Pay slip summary for each employee.
• Summary of payments and deductions.
• Breakdown of employer costs.
• Total working days of the employee

Payroll tax liability reports:

Payroll tax liability reports are the quarterly and annual report, which shows how much tax the company withheld and paid to the employees and helps the employers produce payroll liabilities and employee compensation. Accordingly, payroll outsourcing company provides all these tax reports systematically.

Employee summaries:

Employee reports generally include the following:

• personal information (name, address, joining date), 
• pay information (basic salary, allowances, incentives) 
• Tax information (professional and income tax).

Cash Requirement Report:

A cash requirements payroll report tells about the money requirements on hand, including total cash requirements to cover payroll for the upcoming schedule. This report breaks down the total payroll costs for:

• Employee wages
• Taxes
• Benefits withholdings
• Any other deductions

A cash requirements report is helpful for the business to know how much cash is needed to cover the payroll. This streamlines the payroll outsourcing process, which is composed financially to the needs.

Read more: (Payroll Outsourcing Leads to Better Tax Reporting)

Benefits of generating payroll reports with Talentpro:

Talentpro, payroll outsourcing service provider assist the payroll reports, thus helping in making more informed decisions to take out payroll to the next level of certainty. This apparently makes the payroll reports essential for the smooth running of the business.