Louisville, KY -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2011 -- No longer do small business owners have to choose between long, tedious hours of calculating payroll by hand or over-priced payroll software designed for bigger companies. Small business software developer Halfpricesoft.com has released the 2011 edition of its popular ezPaycheck payroll software, which includes the latest tax rate changes on Tax Relief Act signed by President Obama on Dec 17, 2010.

Priced at just $89 per installation, ezPaycheck 2011 is an affordable software solution for running payroll and printing paychecks designed specifically for small businesses. Employers enter employee information and tax set-up data once and simply update hours and any changes each payroll period. ezPaycheck automatically calculates earnings, taxes and deductions for each employee and prints their checks using the employer’s choice of check forms. Data entry and check printing interfaces are easy to use and designed for business owners who don’t have an accounting background.

Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge says the 2011 edition of ezPaycheck is loaded with new features that make the software more flexible and user-friendly - especially for churches, non-profit organizations and businesses with unique tax deduction needs.

"No two small businesses or non-profits are exactly the same. They all have different needs and requirements,” Dr. Ge said. “Updates in the 2011 edition of ezPaycheck include several features commonly requested by customers who like the software but need additional flexibility."

Updates to the 2011 edition of ezPaycheck include:

- Income tax rate tables updated for 2011, including rates for all 50 states, Washington D.C., and federal taxes

- New options for calculating tax deductions, including tax exemptions for clergy members

- New options for payroll reports and exporting reports for use with other software, including ability to specify beginning and ending dates for reporting — employers are no longer limited to quarterly and annual reports

- New feature remembers dates and other information from previous payroll periods and automatically updates them on checks for the current payroll period, saving employers time and hassle

- New export feature simplifies using employee list data with other software, such as Halfpricesoft.com’s ezW2 software for printing W2 and 1099 forms

ezPaycheck 2011 still has all the popular features of previous editions:

- Capability for adding local tax rates

- Automatically calculate tips, commissions, federal withholding tax, Social Security, Medicare tax, employer unemployment taxes, and other pre-tax and post-tax deductions

- Form 940 and Form 941 printing

- Supports forms W-2 and W-3

- Calculate and print daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly payroll periods

- Use check-in-middle, check-on-top, or check-at-bottom check stock formats

- Able to print MICR numbers on blank check stock to save on pre-printed checks

Small Business Owners can try ezPaycheck 2011 payroll tax solution Without Cost or Obligation
ezPaycheck 2011 can be downloaded for free and tried for up to 30 days to ensure the software meets the customer’s needs before purchasing. The free download includes all features of ezPaycheck 2011, except check printing. For full, unlimited use customers must purchase a license key.

To make sampling ezPaycheck 2011 even easier, the free download includes a sample database. Customers do not have to waste time entering employee data before sampling the software’s many features.

ezPaycheck 2011 software download and license keys are available online at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp.

Or check the video ezPaycheck Made Your Payroll an Easy Job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JISurtSXoZ0

Based in Louisville, Ky., Halfpricesoft.com develops and distributes a wide range of small business software titles that are affordable and easy-to-use, including ezPaycheck 2011. Additional titles available from Halfpricesoft.com include ezW2, ezCheck Printing, ezCheck Personal Edition and ezTimeSheet. The Halfpricesoft.com web site also contains resources and links to help small businesses with their payroll, accounting and tax reporting needs.

For More Information Please Contact:

halfpricesoft.com
P.O. Box 17067 Louisville, KY 40217 USA
email: contact@halfpricesoft.com
Fax: (866) 909-6448
or visit the Web Site at: http://www.halfpricesoft.com