Winter 2018 For Your Benefit Newsletter

Winter 2018

Kushner & Company
For Your Benefit

In the ever-changing world of HR strategy and employee benefits, Kushner & Company is an acknowledged leader in the field. We provide comprehensive consulting and administrative services individualized to assure your specific strategy and benefit requirements are entirely fulfilled.

Cadillac Tax Delayed Until 2022

The three week extension of the federal budget resolving the federal government shutdown from January 19th through 22nd also contained a delay of the Cadillac Tax from 2020 to 2022..

IRS Extends Required Form 1095 Filing Due Dates (Sort of)

The IRS announced in Notice 2018-06 that employers will have more time to provide their employees with the 2017 required 1095-B or 1095-C forms. the new deadline moves from January 31, 2018 to March 2, 2018. However...

Transportation Benefits Impacted by Tax Act

Under the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, employer-provided transportation benefits are somewhat pared back beginning in 2018.

IRS Sends ACA Penalty Letters for 2015

The employer mandate, sometimes known as the "play or pay" clause of the ACA, imposes penalties on Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) if any of their full-time employees purchases individual coverage at the Health Insurance Marketplace (also known as an Exchange) and receives a premium tax credit while doing so for any month in the calendar year, beginning in 2015.

ICE Announces Significant Increases in I-9 Audits of Employers

The current Administration has indicated that the number of Form I-9 employment verification audits will significantly increase in 2018. What does this mean for you?

2018 Benefit Limits Announced

With IRS Notice 2017-64, we now have the applicable retirement and health and welfare benefit limits for 2018. Many (but not all) have increased from 2017.

Small Employer Retirement Plans Negatively Impacted by VCP User Fee Change

It has always been in both the employer's/plan's and the IRS' best interest to correct operational errors before an audit occurs, and since small employers are sometimes more likely to make inadvertent errors (such as missing a Required Minimum Distribution), small employers were previously given a break on the user fees in order to file under the VCP program..

SHRM Highlights Kushner in HR Storytellers Series

Kushner & Company President and CEO Gary Kushner was recently highlighted in SHRM's video series HR Storytellers.

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In This Issue

Cadillac Tax Delayed Until 2022

IRS Extends Required Form 1095 Filing Due Dates

IRS Sends Penalty Letter for 2015

ICE Announces Significant Increases in I-9 Audits of Employers

2018 Benefit Limits Announced

Small Employer Retirement Plans Negatively Impacted by VCP User Fee Change

SHRM Highlights Kushner in HR Storyteller Series

Follow Kushner & Company on Social Media

Health Care Reform

Kushner & Company is your source for information on all aspects of the ACA, as well as for all HR strategy and employee benefit information.

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