Episode 41 | Megan Knab from Franklin on Tax Compliant Web3 Payroll

If you’re an employee receiving your net salary at the end of the month, there is a series of financial operations that your employer must address. Starting with your gross salary, there is a string of deductions like taxation, pensions, social security, medical insurance before arriving at your net salary - the actual funds that get credited in your bank account. If you’re a company seeking to pay your employees and contractors in crypto, you need a single dedicated payroll solution that takes into account all these components, otherwise the payroll process becomes fragmented. Enter Franklin, a hybrid fiat and crypto payroll solution which allows you to automate all payment flows for payroll. On Episode 41, I spoke with its co-founder and CEO, Megan Knab. Topics covered; Megan’s background and how he got interested with blockchain (2:46) How payroll process works, financial deductions and net salary (7:44) Challenges creating a tax compliant web3 payroll product (11:03) How Franklin helps to automate crypto & fiat payroll (15:06) How Franklin handles tax payments (17:29) Mass pay payroll function (19:34) How to pay your workforce on multiple chains/crypto in 1 single transaction (23:22) Direct crypto deposit & direct bank deposit with Franklin (27:10) How is Franklin different to competitors like Request Finance, Bitwage, Utopia Labs, Parcel, Coinshift (28:22) Joining Web3CFO Club and network with high profile web3 CFOs (30:14) Tax implications of receiving salary in crypto (31:56) Barriers for adoption of crypto payroll (34:03) Streaming as a payroll product (37:01) Accounting for payment streams (43:40) Accounting integrations to ERPs like Xero, Quickbooks and crypto accounting solutions like Bitwave, Cryptio (45:02) Megan’s favorite quote (48:26) Brought to you by Web3CFOclub - A community of web3 CFOs sharing best practices around web3 financial operations 👉 Join now for in person events and grow your network at theaccountantquits.com/web3cfo/ Follow The Accountant Quits: LinkedIN: linkedin.com/company/the-accountant-quits Twitter: twitter.com/accountantquits Follow Franklin: Twitter: https://twitter.com/franklinpayroll Follow Megan Knab: Twitter:  https://twitter.com/knotmegan Review If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. Website For show notes and past guests, please visit theaccountantquits.com/podcast/