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McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup November 22 – November 26, 2021

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 22, 2021 – November 26, 2021... November 22, 2021: The IRS released a memorandum...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New Tax Credits Support Paid Leave For COVID Vaccine

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For many employers, the costs related to the COVID-19 vaccine just went down. On April 21, 2021, President Biden announced that employers with fewer than 500 employees – including tax exempt organizations – can claim a...more

Kilpatrick

2021 Health and Fringe Benefit Limits

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For calendar year 2021, the Health FSA contribution limit and the parking and transit limits remain the same. Other limits increase only slightly....more

Conn Kavanaugh

Understanding Your W-2

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Employers must issue Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, to employees by January 31st, so you should have received yours by now. But have you ever actually stopped to look at your W-2? And do you know what it all means? Your...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Deferred Compensation Plans and FICA Taxes: A Valentine’s Day Match or Disaster?

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While February is usually the month for valentines and candy conversation hearts, I hope you will use this month to give a little love and attention to one of the often overlooked “other” taxes applied to payments from...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Timing is Everything: IRS Raises the Stakes for Employers Who Delay FICA Taxation of Deferred Compensation

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Employers, both for-profit and tax-exempt organizations, often overlook the complex FICA tax rules applicable to deferred compensation. Unfortunately, this oversight now can be a real problem for the employer. When an...more

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

2016 Benefit Limits

The IRS updated very few of the retirement plan limits effective for the plan year that begins on or after January 1, 2016. A comparison of the 2016 and 2015 limits is listed below. ...more

Franczek P.C.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and Wage and Hour Law

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Unless you are living under a rock, you are probably aware of the uproar in Indiana about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that the state passed, triggering an incredible backlash inside and outside the state and a rush...more

Baker Donelson

No Refunds: Supreme Court Settles Circuit Split over Severance Payment Taxation

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In its ruling on United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., No. 12-1408 (U.S. Mar. 25, 2014), the United States Supreme Court put to rest a decade-old battle over whether severance payments made to employees are taxable as wages...more

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