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Multi-State Compliance Navigator™: Employment Compliance at Your Fingertips

A smarter way for payroll tax professionals to stay ahead of multi-state rules, filings, and obligations. 

Multi-State Compliance Navigator Employment Compliance at Your Fingertips October 7, 2025

  Key Takeaways

    • Compliance Without the Guesswork
      The Multi-State Compliance Navigator delivers state-specific tax rules, forms, and workflows in one intuitive interface—keeping payroll leaders compliant and eliminating blind spots. 
    • Built for Today’s Complex Workforce
      From remote work to multi-state hiring, the Multi-State Compliance Navigator provides real-time, up to date guidance and reporting thresholds, enabling payroll teams to act with confidence. 
    • Expert Support + Scalable Access
      Continuous access provides a flexibility that combines automation with Thomas & Company’s direct tax expertise, adapting to your unique challenges and growth within your organization. 

Why Payroll Leaders Need a Smarter Solution

For payroll tax professionals, managing compliance across multiple states is a constant uphill battle. Each jurisdiction has its own tax rules, forms, reciprocity agreements, and paid leave programs. Add in frequent updates, mergers, or the rise of remote work, and the complexity multiplies—leaving even seasoned payroll teams struggling to keep up. 

Errors aren’t just frustrating; they can result in costly penalties, missed deadlines, tax audits, or reputational risk. Static resources and disparate systems can’t keep pace with the real-time needs of today’s payroll professionals. Thomas & Company’s tax team developed a proprietary technology for payroll tax professionals that simplifies research and decision-making in employment compliance, resulting in the Multi-State Compliance Navigator. 

This solution provides payroll professionals with instant access to state-specific rules, forms, and workflows, along with direct support from our tax experts, so compliance is no longer clouded by uncertainty. 

Built within Thomas & Company’s SHIELD business hub, our Multi-State Compliance Navigator makes it quick and easy to find the appropriate resources you need, saving you time and effort, and allowing you and your team to focus on other critical tasks. Everything you need is just a click away—in the system you already know and trust. 

Thomas & Company's Multi-State Compliance Navigator is a solution that eliminates guesswork and delivers clarity in the often-confusing world of state and local taxation.

What the Multi-State Compliance Navigator Delivers 

When payroll compliance spans dozens of jurisdictions, even the slightest oversight can result in costly setbacks. The Multi-State Compliance Navigator arms payroll leaders with the right information, right when it’s needed—covering critical areas of multi-state taxation and employer obligations, all in one place. 

State & Local Income Tax Withholding
Clear, up-to-date guidance on withholding rules across jurisdictions. 

Unemployment Insurance (SUI) Obligations
Ensure precise state reporting to safeguard your business from costly penalties and audits. 

Employer Filing & Reporting Requirements
Comprehensive insights into state and local obligations, empowering your business to excel in compliance. 

Paid Family & Medical Leave Programs
Stay compliant with varying state-level leave requirements. 

On-Demand Expert Support
Access Thomas & Company consultants for unique or complex scenarios.

Compliance doesn't have to mean complexity. With the Multi-State Compliance Navigator, payroll teams gain clarity, control, and confidence in every state they operate.

Core Features & Benefits of the Multi-State Compliance Navigator 

Guided Workflows
Step-by-step, scenario-based guidance makes registrations, reporting, and onboarding seamless—adapting to your workforce needs. 

All-in-One Compliance Interface
Access everything you need—forms, timelines, reciprocity rules, withholding requirements, and employer obligations—in a single intuitive resource. 

Multi-State Confidence
Gain clear insights into resident vs. non-resident requirements, reciprocity agreements, and supplemental wage tax treatment with no guesswork. 

Stay Current
Stay ahead of regulatory changes with a continuously refreshed knowledge base built for accuracy and reliability. 

Performance & Risk Protection
Reduce compliance risk, avoid costly penalties, and prove ROI by relying on accurate, consolidated insights at every step. 

Flexible, Continuous Access
Choose the level of access and support that fits your organization’s needs—scalable, cost-effective, and designed to grow with you. 

Why Choose Thomas & Company? 

For over 30 years, Thomas & Company has been a trusted partner to HR, Payroll, and Compliance leaders. Our team combines deep subject-matter expertise with forward-looking technology, delivering solutions that not only keep you compliant but also help you operate with confidence. 

The Multi-State Compliance Navigator reflects this commitment, pairing automation with expert-driven service so you can tackle payroll challenges head-on. 

Ready to Take the Complexity Out of Compliance? 

Want to see–in action–how Thomas & Company’s Multi-State Compliance Navigator can guide you through the complexities of multi-state reporting and compliance? Book a Free Demo and start transforming your employment compliance today. 

Michele Heckmann

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