ADP SmartCompliance Employment Tax is a paid service for coordinating employment-tax compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. It integrates ADP and Workday systems and offers provider-agnostic connections with most payroll, HR, or third-party systems. The service monitors payroll-tax requirements, follows legislative changes, adapts to agency remittance frequency, and helps respond to agency notices. It supports tax registration and assisted filing, including quarterly and annual reconciliation statements and jurisdiction-specific amended returns. Automated deposits can be set up for federal and provincial payroll taxes. Clients receive 24/7 online access to organized tax reports and deposit confirmations. Payroll-tax experts support coordinated agency responses. Access is available through web and API interfaces. ADP describes the service for midsized businesses with 50–999 employees and large businesses with 1,000 or more employees. Pricing is on request; the Canadian page offers a customized demo and lists 866-622-8153 for sales inquiries. ADP was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey.
Who it is for
The service is intended for midsized businesses with 50–999 employees and large businesses with 1,000 or more employees managing payroll-tax compliance.
What is good
- Federal, state, and local tax monitoring
- Assisted filing and tax registration
- Automated federal and provincial deposits
- 24/7 online reporting access
- Web and API access
What to know first
- Pricing requires a demo or sales request
- Assisted rather than fully automated filing
- SOC reports restricted under NDA or contract
Verdict
ADP SmartCompliance Employment Tax brings monitoring, filing support, deposits, reporting, and agency response into one service. Its paid, quote-based model is aimed at larger organizations with complex payroll-tax obligations.
ADP SmartCompliance Employment Tax plans and pricing
All plansCompared on tax compliance software
- Supported tax types
- federal payroll taxes; state payroll taxes; local payroll taxes
- Return filing
- Yes
- Filing support level
- assisted
- Tax registration
- Yes
- API access
- Yes
