There are thousands of taxes in the United States between federal, state and local governments—in particular, local government taxes make up around five thousand of them.
Each of these taxes require a tax ID in order to pay them correctly. At a first glance, this can look overwhelming since it seems like you may need thousands of these IDs if you have employees nationwide. Needing to identify which IDs are required can take employers an exhausting amount of time. That’s why we do the hard work for you.
Zeal identifies which tax IDs you need, alongside which ones share the same IDs, ensuring you don’t have to waste time reviewing every potential tax ID you need. If you have taxes that share an ID, we’ll group these together so you only need to handle one submission. What’s even better is that some local taxes can use a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) or other high-level state IDs, and Zeal will automatically fill these in. For example, Pennsylvania is a state that generally has complicated tax handling due to the amount of local taxes that are present—instead of handling these one-by-one, Zeal simply collects the IDs for the collection agencies that collect on behalf all of the local taxes, meaning employers have less IDs they need to worry about.
At Zeal, we strive to provide our partners with the best solutions when it comes to building their own payroll. If you’re interested in saving time and want to reduce the complexity of handling tax IDs, get in touch with us.
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Pranab Krishnan is a technology entrepreneur, machine learning researcher, and co-founder & CTO of Zeal, a staffing operations platform that makes it easier for staffing companies to onboard, pay, and bill. Based in San Francisco, Pranab leads Zeal’s technical vision, oversees the engineering team, drives product architecture, and ensures the platform scales to support high-volume staffing operations. Prior to Zeal, Pranab worked in machine learning engineering at MITRE and as a bioinformatics fellow at the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). He also served as a data analyst at The Wharton School. He is a Y Combinator alumnus through Zeal’s inclusion in the YC Summer 2019 cohort. Under his technical leadership, Zeal has secured $30M in funding. Beyond his day job, Pranab engages with the broader fintech and startup community, shares insights on product engineering and embedded finance, and contributes to discussions around scalable infrastructure, compliance automation, and fintech innovation.
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