Employers will have to report amounts paid for qualified sick leave wages and qualified family leave pay under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Reporting is ...

Deductibility of Qualified Transportation Fringe Benefits

BAS
02.07.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

The IRS issued guidance in proposed regulations explaining the loss of business deductibility for qualified transportation fringe benefits beginning after 2017. While ...

IRS-Recognized Mid-Year Change Events

BAS
25.06.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

The IRS allows employees to pay for certain benefits with pre-tax dollars through an employer-sponsored Code section 125 (cafeteria) plan. As a condition of receiving ...

Updates to COBRA Notices

BAS
18.06.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

The U.S. Department of Labor updated its model COBRA notices to provide recipients more information about the interaction of COBRA and Medicare. All employers should ...

Dependent Care FSA or Child Care Tax Credit?

BAS
11.06.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

Employees who work for employers that offer a dependent day care flexible spending account plan may be faced with the choice of participating in the FSA or taking the ...

New Form W-4 and IRS Compliance Tools

BAS
04.06.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

Tax reform in 2017 made changes to wage withholding. Many of these changes went into effect in 2018. All the changes are now captured in a revised Form W-4 which ...

EEOC Delays EEO-1 Compliance Date

BAS
28.05.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a delay in the date for submitting 2019 EEO-1 data due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, the reporting ...

Changes Available for FSAs

BAS
21.05.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plans are now allowed to make temporary, new plan design changes to give employees flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes ...

IRS Relaxes Cafeteria Plan and FSA Rules for COVID-19

BAS
13.05.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance allowing temporary changes to cafeteria plan rules resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance increases the ability ...

COBRA Payment and Election Timeframes Extended

BAS
07.05.2020
HR & Benefits Compliance

Last week, the U.S. government issued a rule extending the required timeframes for electing and paying for COBRA continuation coverage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our ...

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