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Employers: Deadline To File Protective Payroll Tax Refund Claim Nears

by Rena Pirsos | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 4/18/2013

Employers that paid federal income tax (FIT) and Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes on the value of health care benefits provided to employees' same-sex partners for tax years 2009 and after should consider whether...more

American Taxpayer Relief Act Affects Mass Transit Benefits and Other Employee Benefits

by Emily Erstling, Paul M. Hamburger, Lisa Berkowitz Herrnson, Steven Weinstein | Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/21/2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ("ATRA") into law. ATRA, adopted as an alternative to stepping over the "fiscal cliff," preserves most of the Bush-era tax cuts and...more

Sixth Circuit Will Not Rehear Quality Stores Decision that Severance Pay in Connection with a Reduction in Force is not Subject to...

by Paul M. Hamburger, Elizabeth Mills, Andrea Rattner | Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/21/2013

On September 7, 2012, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc. that severance payments to former employees pursuant to an involuntary reduction in force are not taxable "wages" for...more

Legal Alert: Correcting 2012 Withholding Errors

by Jeffrey S. Ashendorf | FordHarrison on 1/18/2013

One of the changes made by the American Taxpayer Relief Act ("ATRA") was to restore the $240 monthly limit on employer-provided transit passes or commuting transportation, which had reverted to $125 as of January 1, 2012. ...more

Recent tax law changes of 2013

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/15/2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law. Summarized below are highlights of those and other changes to Federal tax laws affecting income, payroll, gift and estate, and...more

How Will the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 Affect You - Details of Legislation passed by Congress to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

by Robert Howell, Westray Veasey | Poyner Spruill LLP on 1/15/2013

On January 2, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, H.R. 8 (ATRA), preserving many of the key tax provisions passed during the George W. Bush presidency, which were scheduled to...more

Congress Narrowly Avoids "Fiscal Cliff," But Not Increase In 2013 Social Security Tax Rate

by Rena Pirsos | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/5/2013

Keeping Americans in suspense until the very last minute, Congress narrowly averted the "fiscal cliff" by passing the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), H.R. 8, late in the evening on New Year's Day. President Obama...more

FICA Tax “Holiday” Ends With 2012, and Social Security and Medicare Contributions Increase For Some Employees

by Kristyn Bunce DeFilipp, Robert A. Fisher | Foley Hoag LLP on 1/3/2013

On January 1, 2013, Congress approved the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the bill designed to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.” The Act, which President Obama signed into law yesterday, extended certain tax relief...more

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