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Fox Rothschild LLP

New House Tax Bill Contains Several Key Provisions

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On Monday, Republicans unveiled their much anticipated Tax Bill (the “Bill”). At 389 pages, the Bill contains a number of provisions. Some are simply extensions of previous provisions that were sunsetting at the end of 2025....more

Dickinson Wright

ACA Reporting Update: Some Relief and Process Streamlining for Employers

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Applicable large employers (“ALEs”) are subject to reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”). To comply with the reporting requirements, an ALE must file a Form 1095-C with the IRS reporting certain...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Did you know? IRS Form 1095-C

Did you know that you do not need to mail Form 1095-Cs if a notice is posted by March 3, 2025? At the end of last year, a new law was enacted that would allow employers to provide Form 1095-C only if requested, so long as the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

New ACA Reporting Rules Provide Employer Relief

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Just before the holidays, two bills impacting reporting under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), H.R. 3801 (EMPLOYER REPORTING IMPROVEMENT ACT) and H.R. 3797 (PAPERWORK BURDEN REDUCTION ACT), passed both houses and were sent to...more

Cole Schotz

RetireReady NJ: Reminder About The Requirements Under The New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act

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Employers with at least 25 employees in New Jersey that do not already offer a qualified retirement plan to employees must take action to facilitate the RetireReady NJ Retirement Savings Program (“RetireReady NJ”)....more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

New Year, New ACA Penalty and Reporting Relief!

In late December, President Biden signed into law relief related to Code section 4980H employer mandate penalties and Code section 6055 minimum essential coverage (“MEC”) and Code section 6056 employer mandate reporting on...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Announces 2024 Retirement Plan Limits

The IRS recently announced the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments to various benefit and contribution limits applicable to retirement plans. The IRS modestly increased the applicable limits for 2024. The following limits apply...more

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Illinois Employers Required to Provide Public Transit Benefits in 2024

Many employers with at least fifty employees in the six-county Chicago area will have to provide their full-time employees with pre-tax public transit benefits starting January 1, 2024, under a new Illinois law....more

Sullivan & Worcester

Winter 2023 Employment and Benefits Updates

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SECURE 2.0 Act - As part of a large year-end piece of legislation, the provisions known as SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) were enacted into law. SECURE 2.0 represents a broadly bipartisan piece of legislation that...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - January 2023

The Senate ushered in the New Year with a bang by passing SECURE 2.0 on December 22, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes many updates to the sweeping changes brought about under 2019’s original SECURE Act legislation. The following are...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SECURE 2.0: Retirement Plan Changes for 2023

The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 was enacted at the end of last year as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. The act sets forth a number of changes affecting retirement plans that go into effect over several years....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Up, Up and Away: 2020 Increased Penalties for Employee Benefit Plans

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For 2020, legislation enacted in December of 2019 dramatically increases penalties imposed by the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) for late filing of certain employee benefit plan notices and reports. In addition, a final...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

The SECURE Act Brings Significant Changes for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act and Spending Bills – Impact on Plan Sponsors

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), the largest package of retirement system reforms in over a decade, was enacted on December 20, 2019.  Many of the provisions in the...more

Vedder Price

The SECURE Act and Its Impact on Retirement Plans

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On December 20, 2019, after months of uncertainty, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (“SECURE”) Act finally became law. The SECURE Act makes numerous changes to both the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and...more

Snell & Wilmer

New California Legislation Makes it More Difficult to Classify Workers as Independent Contractors

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California Assembly Bill 5 has been branded as the killer of the gig economy. It adds to the California Labor Code a new test for deciding who is properly classified as an independent contractor. Workers will be considered...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New Jersey Becomes First State to Require Employers to Offer Pre-Tax Transportation Fringe Benefits

On March 1, 2019, when Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill No. 1567, “An Act concerning pre-tax transportation fringe benefits” (“NJ Transit Benefits Law” or “Law”), New Jersey became the first state to require...more

Burr & Forman

Final Version of Tax Reform Act has a Minor Impact on Employee Benefit Programs

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In early November, I posted an article entitled “Tax Reform Proposal Nixes Favorable Tax Treatment of Several Employee Benefits”. That article reviewed the Ways and Means Committee’s proposal (H.R. 1, the Tax Reform and Jobs...more

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