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Form 5500 Changes

The government agencies responsible for Form 5500 released advance informational copies of the 2017 Form 5500 annual return/report and related instructions. Employee ...
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IRS Releases Forms for Pay or Play Penalty

As a follow up to our article about the imminent assessment of employer shared responsibility penalties (read our prior article by clicking here), the IRS released forms ...
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New EEOC Online Reporting Portal

An employee who believes he or she has been discriminated against at work based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual ...
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IRS Issues Per Diem Rates for Business Expenses

In Notice 2017-54, the IRS provides the per-diem rates for taxpayers to use for substantiating the amount of business expenses incurred while traveling away from home ...
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IRS Releases 2018 Inflation Adjustments to Tax Provisions

The Internal Revenue Service released the annual inflation adjustments that will apply to certain benefit plan tax provisions in 2018. Revenue Procedure 2017-58, which ...
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Opt-Out Payments Under ACA

With calendar-year plan open enrollment season approaching, employers should consider how they treat payments made for opting out of health coverage.
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Required Notice Distribution

As we are getting into the fall months, employers with calendar year plans begin to prepare for the annual open enrollment period. Part of these preparations should ...
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School Leave Laws

As the school year starts again, employees are faced with the challenges of balancing work and family obligations. One often stressful family obligation of working ...
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New Overtime Rule Declared Invalid

A U.S. District Court in Texas struck down the 2016 overtime rule which would have made many more workers eligible for overtime.
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EEO-1 Employee Pay Reporting Requirement Suspended

In 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) implemented a new reporting requirement for employers with 100 or more employees. These employers were to ...
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