Between campaign promises and early actions on starting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, many employers are under the hopeful impression that the ACA reporting requirements may go away. At this point, who knows? Moreover, who knows how long it may take before they do or are replaced by a different kind of employer [...]
If securing your employee personably identifiable information (PII) is top of mind for your organization, the following will discuss where vulnerabilities can occur and what you can do to limit your companies exposure. Cloud computing is quickly becoming the de facto standard for many HCM solutions. Ensuring your service providers have ample security built into [...]
Hi, I’m Patrick Doolin, CEO of Integrity Data. There is a lot of speculation and many opinions out there on what will happen with the Affordable Care Act under the Trump Administration. And, we as employers are faced with decisions of what we’re supposed to do yet this filing season. The executive order that [...]
Eligible employers may soon face expensive penalties for Affordable Care Act (ACA) noncompliance. Research indicates ACA penalties are going to hurt during the upcoming 2016 tax reporting period. Accenture researchers revealed penalties could be attributed to employers that are “unintentionally non-compliant,” meaning they offer health coverage, but fail to meet IRS reporting requirements. Don’t [...]
Content updated on 10/23/2023 With multiple reporting years behind us, we may be thinking that we’ve got this ACA thing down and there is nothing more to learn (or maybe we just don’t want to!). Yet, making sure that your company is using safe harbors efficiently could lead to improved methods of determining affordability [...]
Although there are plenty of headlines suggesting President-Elect Trump could repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it hasn’t happened yet. In the meantime, businesses must continue to comply with the existing legislation. However, the IRS has made a slight change in deadlines and extended the good faith penalty relief to the 2016 information [...]
We are in the last quarter of 2016, which has many accounting and payroll departments scrambling to prepare year-end documents. In addition to year-end reporting, data will be used for employee W-2 statements and Affordable Care Act (ACA) 1095-C statements, on top of the regular direct deposit statements. Preparing these documents traditionally takes lots of [...]
Many businesses are wondering just how compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may change after the recent election. While the exact changes have yet to be determined, businesses should not sit back and wait, but rather keep moving forward based on the ACA legislation that is in place today. It is also a [...]
It’s cliché for a reason, the government is rarely ready or capable of following up on many of its own rules and regulations. Many agencies are underfunded, understaffed and simply unable to determine whether businesses are able to comply with many regulations. This cliché is now magnified by the recent election and an incoming [...]
Initially published as an interim rule in 2013, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published final rules surrounding whistleblowers and the ACA. Created to protect employees who have been wrongfully retaliated against for complaining about company ACA policy, these newly published rules will force businesses to re-evaluate their handling of employees with regards [...]