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Ballard Spahr LLP

The OBBBA’s Impact on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

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H.R.1—the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)—contains several provisions that directly affect employer-provided benefit programs, primarily health and welfare programs....more

The Wagner Law Group

IRS Warns Companies are Making False Statements About Health Plan Reimbursements

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In IR-2024-65 (the “IR”), the IRS warns taxpayers that some companies are misrepresenting the circumstances under which food and wellness expenses can be paid or reimbursed under health flexible spending arrangements (“health...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Outbreak Period to Be Applied on a One-Year Rolling Basis

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In this legal update, our employee benefits attorneys cover three recent health and welfare plan developments....more

Verrill

IRS Relaxes Rules for Cafeteria Plans and Clarifies Relief for High Deductible Health Plans

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In response to the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), earlier this week the IRS issued two notices allowing certain changes to cafeteria plans. Notice 2020-33 increases the limit on unused amounts remaining at the...more

King & Spalding

New ACA Guidance Warrants Another "Checkup" of Employer Health Plans

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On December 16, 2015, the IRS issued Notice 2015-87 (the "Notice"), which provides "question-and-answer" guidance regarding how various Affordable Care Act (the "ACA") provisions apply to employer-provided group health plans....more

FordHarrison

2016 Cost of Living Increases are Rare

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On October 21, 2015, in Information Release 2015-118, the IRS announced cost-of-living adjustments to various dollar limitations under the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") for pension plans and other related items for the...more

Alston & Bird

The (Poorly Named) “Cadillac Tax” Part Two: IRS Provides Further Guidance in Notice 2015-52

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The so-called “Cadillac Tax” (Internal Revenue Code Section 4980I) applies starting in 2018 and was intended to provide a means to address what were perceived as overly rich employer-provided health benefit plan designs, as...more

Lathrop GPM

2014 – June, 30 2015 Relief from Employer Excise Tax for Small Employer & S Corporation Payment or Reimbursement of Individual...

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Beginning in 2014, a violation of certain healthcare reform rules, such as offering a health plan with annual dollar limits or not providing full preventive care with no employee cost, requires employers to pay an excise tax...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Reminder: Amendments needed to reflect $2,500 limit on Health FSA contributions by year end

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As mentioned in a prior Alert, beginning in 2013 employees’ salary reduction contributions to a health flexible spending account (health FSA) may not exceed $2,500 per plan year. This limit is to be indexed for inflation in...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

The IRS Says (Again) That Certain Employer Payment Plans Won’t Fly

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The IRS recently issued two new Q&As to underscore that arrangements allowing employers to reimburse employees on a pre-tax basis for premiums used to purchase individual health coverage, either inside or outside of a public...more

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