HR Bartender

JANUARY 9, 2018

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Let me check on this, and I’ll be right back. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center for violating the ADA. According to the EEOC’s suit, the defendant hired the employee as a laundry technician in February 2015. Employer takeaways. Crisis averted. So, boo-yah!

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The IRS reminds employers that, beginning in 2016, the Affordable Care Act requires them and other providers of minimum essential coverage to report certain information about employees’ health coverage in 2015 to the IRS and to covered individuals. The deadlines for reporting about 2015 coverage are Feb.

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ACA Times

APRIL 10, 2019

5 minute read: Employers are still confused with how to comply with the Affordable Care Act, and continue to hide their heads in the sand about the real risk of receiving costly ACA penalties from the IRS for non-compliance with the federal healthcare law.

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ACA Times

JULY 10, 2017

Interestingly, none of the eight included the ACA-mandated filing requirements for employers. However, it is clear that the IRS has a mandate to receive and review filings of employers to determine if they have met their obligations under the ACA, and is charged with enforcement of the ACA penalties for failure to do so.

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ACA Times

JUNE 7, 2019

4 minute read: As the IRS begins rolling out a new round of ACA penalty notices this month, we can’t stress enough how important it is to assess your compliance with the ACA on a monthly basis to optimize your compliance process. It’s on a month-to-month basis that the IRS determines penalty assessments for ACA non-compliance.

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ACA Times

JULY 8, 2019

4 minute read: As the IRS rolls out Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2017 tax year, those of you who have a monthly compliance process in place to address your organization’s responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act should be glad you took the time to put such a process in place.

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ACA Times

MAY 20, 2015

The Affordable Care Act has resulted in higher health care costs for many employers, and a new survey finds that seven out of 10 companies believe even larger cost increases are ahead. The survey was conducted in March 2015. We’re committed to helping companies reduce risk, avoid penalties, and achieve 100% ACA compliance.

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HR Bartender

JULY 20, 2017

Fry] Form I-9 as well as the corresponding process that employers must go through, is intended to prove identity and eligibility to work in the United States. How long do employers have to implement the new Form? Fry] The new Form was published July 17, 2017, but employers have two months to transition to the new form.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Individuals may receive forms in the next few months which provide information about health care coverage they were offered during 2015. Two of the forms are new this year, while one was first sent to some taxpayers in 2015. It provides information about who was covered and when.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Employers who have not yet received a 2015 ESRP penalty notice should not breathe a sigh of relief yet. The IRS identified 49,259 employers at risk for compliance action by the IRS for the 2015 tax year. The IRS will have until mid-2019 to continue issuing 2015 Letter 226J penalty notices. 3 minute read: .

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ACA Times

MARCH 19, 2018

The April 2 deadline is fast approaching for filing information related to the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ). Transition relief for ALEs is not available for 2017 as it was for the 2015 and 2016 tax reporting years. Conducted a monthly audit of employment classifications, such as full-time, part time, variable and seasonal.

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ACA Times

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

These penalties apply to Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), which are organizations with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees. Moreover, the employer penalties are double for a willful failure, which the employer bears the burden to show that any failure to comply was despite reasonable diligence.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 4, 2022

Employers ringing in the New Year should remember that several states ’ have additional ACA filing and furnishing obligations that must be completed for the 2021 tax year. Self-funded employers and health insurance carriers in California must furnish healthcare information to their employees and their dependents by January 31, 2022.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Employers have lost a significant margin of error when it comes to ACA information reporting in 2016. As previously discussed, as the good faith standard for incomplete or inaccurate reporting no longer applies for 2016 reporting, the need for compliance is more vital now than before. And here’s how: 1.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 26, 2017

While we are getting our information in order for the 2016 tax year, we received some clarity on the previous year from the IRS. The IRS’s Commissioner John Koskinen has reported on information surrounding employer shared responsibility payments and individual premium tax credits (PTCs) for the 2015 tax year.

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ACA Times

MAY 5, 2016

While many if not most of the 2015 tax season deadlines have already passed, some information-filing deadlines are steadily approaching. These dates are strictly for the 2015 tax year. Here are some key dates of note for most employers and coverage providers. Click here for more information.

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ACA Times

JULY 27, 2016

The site Health Care Attorneys has released a valuable tip sheet with five common mistakes that employers make when filing their forms. ACA compliance is nothing to play around with, especially when employees can change statuses rather easily. That can result in an Employer Shared Responsibility payment being assessed against you.

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ACA Times

JUNE 24, 2019

4 minute read: The IRS staff is preparing a new round of IRC 4980H penalty assessments to be issued to employers for failing to comply with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. Letter 226J is the penalty notice issued by the IRS to those employers the tax agency believes have failed to comply with the ACA’s Employer Mandate.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The information describes what you should do if your organization receives Letter 226J, and provides some answers to “common questions” that an ALE may have. The information describes what you should do if your organization receives Letter 226J, and provides some answers to “common questions” that an ALE may have.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since November, the IRS has been sending notices to organizations that failed to comply with ACA’s Employer Mandate (Internal Revenue Code Section 4980H) based on information identified in the annual filing submitted to the IRS for the 2015 tax year. Some organizations are seeing such penalty notices in the millions of dollars.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

3 minute read: When submitting ACA filings to the IRS each year, many employers elect to file electronically, due to the many benefits. What employers may be unaware of however, is that the system in which employers submit their filings crashes, sometimes without warning. Implement a Monthly ACA Compliance Process.

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ACA Times

APRIL 17, 2019

Chances are, your organization has incorporated a monthly review of related workforce data necessary for your organization’s annual filing of ACA information with the IRS. Regulatory Knowledge: When addressing ACA compliance needs on a monthly basis, a complete understanding of the mechanics of the law is required.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 10, 2018

The new law allows for heightened investigations into those employers that are allegedly misclassifying their workers as independent contractors rather than as employees. Here are two: Being Subject to the ACA’s Employer Mandate. We’re committed to helping companies reduce risk, avoid penalties, and achieve 100% ACA compliance.

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ACA Times

MAY 14, 2018

3 minute read: The evidence continues to mount that the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act is not going away soon, if ever. million paper Forms 1095-C had not been processed by the IRS almost five months after the May 31, 2016 filing deadline for 2015 ACA information filings.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This could pose a significant risk to your organization’s Affordable Care Act compliance process that could lead to penalties. Under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act, enacted in 2015, ITINs that are unused in the last three consecutive years will expire on December 31, 2019.

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ACA Times

JULY 10, 2019

What does this mean for your business and ACA compliance? Under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act, enacted in 2015, ITINs that are unused in the last three consecutive years will expire on December 31, 2019. One area of concern arises in compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate.

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ExactHire

JULY 10, 2019

For employers, economic strength is beneficial as it tends to signal increased sales and services sought by consumers; however, it also means a highly competitive labor market with heightened challenges in finding individuals to fill vacant positions. Illinois (2015). New Jersey (2015). What is Ban the Box? Minnesota (2014).

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ExactHire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

About “Ban the Box” “Ban the Box” is the removal of any questions asking about an individual’s prior criminal record from an employer’s job application…essentially, barring any check boxes that an applicant might have had to mark on an employment application in the past.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

employer) to document payee (e.g., employee) elections for application of the de minimis error safe harbor from penalties under IRC Sections 6721 and 6722 as amended by Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (P.L. Moreover, a pattern of non-compliance may indicate intentional disregard for purposes of penalties.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Until then, expect the IRS is moving forward with its efforts to enforce compliance with the ACA for the individual mandate. There is no change with respect to the employer mandate. This is a change from past filing seasons, when the agency accepted tax returns without this information.

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ACA Times

JULY 27, 2015

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a reminder that all employers that provide self-insured health coverage, must file an annual return reporting certain information for each employee they cover. All Applicable Large Employers report using Forms 1094-C and 1095-C. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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ACA Times

JULY 31, 2017

Senate vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) leaves in place the ACA’s employer mandate. The employer mandate applies to businesses with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, referred to as Applicable Large Employers (ALEs). So how should this be interpreted? For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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ACA Times

MAY 21, 2015

The IRS has issued an explanation of how companies can determine if they are an ”applicable large employer” or ALE, and how that affects their obligations under the Affordable Care Act. These employers are subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions and to the annual employer information return provisions.

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PeopleStrategy

OCTOBER 15, 2015

® a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of end-to-end Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, will be exhibiting at the 2015 HR Technology Conference and Exposition from October 18 – October 20 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Contact Information: Lesley Lyons, Marketing Director. PeopleStrategy, Inc.® Phone: 404.410.4154.

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ACA Times

APRIL 18, 2016

For many employers, this is their first year reporting employee health care coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act. Required employers include those that are ALEs,or Applicable Large Employers with 50 or more full-time employees and equivalents. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 3, 2015

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a reminder to employers about specific “shared responsibility” provisions of the Affordable Care Act that may affect them. The size and structure of a company’s workforce – whether it is small, large, or part of a group – helps determine what provisions applies to the employer.

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