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Receiving Compensation or Benefits as an S Corporation Officer/Shareholder?
There’s an old saying that death and taxes are inevitable, but death doesn’t get worse every time the legislators or regulators come together. As an S corporation officer/shareholder―particularly if...
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Losing Your Health Insurance Due to a Lost Job?
Like millions of other Americans, Julian and his family face losing their health insurance coverage. Married, father of a college-age son, and a successful executive for a software company―Julian never...
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Ready for the New COBRA and CHIPRA Requirements?
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have,” according to Winston Churchill. The U.S. Congress would no doubt agree. Two new pieces of legislation, both enacted this year, expand...
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Confused Over Health Care Reform?
“This is what change looks like,” according to President Obama. Whether you love it, hate it or fall somewhere in-between, national health care reform is no longer simply a contentious debate in...
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Eligible for the New Small-Employer Health Care Credit?
Small employers simply pay more for health coverage than their large-company counterparts. It’s a fact–their premiums are higher and they also pay more in administrative costs. As a consequence,...
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Know a Young Adult Who Needs Health Coverage? Or Have Employees Who Do?
Two million young adults are poised to gain access to health insurance through their parents’ health care plans as a result of this year’s health reform legislation. Some are students or unemployed and...
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Finding Yourself In Medicare’s Donut Hole?
You have prescription drug coverage, then you don’t, and then you do. It may sound strange, but that’s been the scenario for many seniors with government-subsidized drug plans under Medicare Part D....
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Have a Pre-Existing Condition? Need Help Researching Health Insurance...
HealthCare.gov launched this week. The web-based portal provides a centralized, online resource for information on provisions of this year’s Affordable Care Act, as well as tools to help you research...
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Know the Latest Health Care Rules Now in Effect?
It’s been a challenging year for Samantha Greene and her family. In January, Sam’s husband lost his job and, with it, the family’s health insurance. Although Gus was fortunate to find a new position...
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Getting a Health Insurance Rebate? Learn the Tax and Other Consequences
In a time of rapidly rising costs for health insurance, a new provision of the Affordable Care Act (the Act) sets a minimum percentage of premium dollars that insurers must spend on health care,...
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Considering a Health Savings Account or Other Tax-Advantaged Health Plan?...
He must have meant it at the time. Benjamin Franklin apparently felt that “nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.” But in current-day America, it’s increasingly apparent that nothing...
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Pay-or-Play Provisions of Affordable Care Act Postponed to 2015
One more year… Citing concerns about “the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” the Obama administration announced it is delaying, until January...
View ArticleConsidered Long-Term Care Insurance?
We’re living longer than ever before. That’s the good news. The average life expectancy in the U.S. is over 75 years for men and 80 for women. On the other hand, health care costs are increasing―and...
View ArticleHeard about the Financial Bailout Bill’s Tax Relief Provisions?
You don’t work on Wall Street, so the new financial bailout legislation doesn’t benefit you. Right? Wrong, at least for most people. To secure passage of H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization...
View ArticleKnow the New Standard Mileage Rates?
It’s a law, like gravity: What goes up must come down. Over the last year or so, the cost of gasoline climbed dramatically. Of late, it is considerably reduced. Mirroring these changes, when the IRS...
View ArticleReceiving Compensation or Benefits as an S Corporation Officer/Shareholder?
There’s an old saying that death and taxes are inevitable, but death doesn’t get worse every time the legislators or regulators come together. As an S corporation officer/shareholder―particularly if...
View ArticleLosing Your Health Insurance Due to a Lost Job?
Like millions of other Americans, Julian and his family face losing their health insurance coverage. Married, father of a college-age son, and a successful executive for a software company―Julian never...
View ArticleNeed Health Care? Federal and State Exchanges Now Open
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re here. Federal and state-run individual health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, are now a reality. Despite the kind of glitches often encountered with the launch of a...
View ArticleLooking for Health Insurance for Your Small Business’ Employees? Limited SHOP...
Ready… Set… Not so fast. Washington State’s Small Business Health Options Program — or SHOP exchange — launched on October 1, 2013 alongside the state’s individual health insurance exchange. But in a...
View ArticleIRS Eases Use-It-or-Lose-It Rule for Health Flexible Savings Accounts (FSAs)
With contributions by Bryan Avery Rule No. 1 is Never Lose Money, at least according to Warren Buffett. Can you guess what Rule No. 2 is? Never Forget Rule No. 1. Nobody likes losing money. In fact,...
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