IRS to issue new health care reform law affordability test
IRS to issue new health care reform law affordability test
August 12, 2011 - 2:36pm
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service said it will develop new rules that will make it easier for employers to determine if their health care plans are “affordable” and exempt from a stiff financial penalty mandated by the health care reform law.
Under the law, starting in 2014, employers are liable for an annual $3,000 penalty for those employees whose required health insurance premium contribution for single coverage exceeds 9.5% of family income and the employees are eligible for federal premium subsidies to buy coverage through state insurance exchanges.
In rules proposed Friday that were welcomed by employers, the IRS said it will develop a safe harbor in which coverage would be considered affordable so long as the premium contribution for single coverage did not exceed 9.5% of employees’ W-2 wages.
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