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Dix Addressing State Audit Findings

Issues Include Federal Taxes, Health Savings Account, Christmas Bonuses

Several issues that merit corrective action were addressed in a letter to the Village of Dix Board Chairwoman Linda Rasmussen from the Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts. The letter was dated Oct. 24.

The audit for the village determined that "Despite withholding the federal taxes from employees' compensation, the village clerk has neither remitted those amounts to the IRS nor filed the quarterly Form 941s."

The audit report explained that the clerk at the time apparently stopped making payments to the IRS when the electronic payment system was initiated because she could not figure out how t...