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Reconsidering your employee benefits priorities

Health Consultants Group

Whether their families battled the virus or not, they have all endured a life-changing event. After a year of unprecedented medical and personal experiences, employees can easily detect holes in their benefits plans. In 2020, they surveyed 2,504 active HR professionals. Flexible work options. Health Savings Accounts.

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New COVID relief package extends payroll provisions

Business Management Daily

The new COVID relief package included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. The law also extends expiring tax provisions and everything that could be jammed into 5,593 pages of federal legislation three days before Christmas. Extensions of popular payroll tax provisions. Temporary disaster tax relief.

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2nd COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes Many Other Changes 2021 & 2022!

Fringe Benefit Analysts

COVID Relief, No Surprises Act, FSA and DCAP Extensions, Transparency, and HIPAA Privacy Updates. . . Features of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. . The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (The Act) was signed into law on December 28th by President Trump. Tax Provisions. Compensation Transparency. ·

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10 steps to maintain end-of-year payroll compliance

Business Management Daily

Some payroll tax compliance items are completed quarterly, or more frequently throughout the year. While you need to have the W-4 form with the withholding selections from employees in order to pay them properly, W-9s are mostly used for year-end reporting, as taxes are not taken out from their checks.

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONTAINS MANY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RELATED PROVISIONS

Benefits Notes

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “ARPA”) into law. The ARPA also allows the employer, insurer, or multiemployer plan sponsor who subsided the premiums to offset the cost by claiming a new federal tax credit. The subsidy is tax-free to the individual receiving the subsidy.