Money Talk

JULY 13, 2023

Starting in 2025, there will be new catch-up contribution limits for workers aged 60, 61, 62, and 63. In addition, effective 2024, Roth (after-tax dollar) emergency savings accounts linked to employer retirement savings can allow up to $2,500 of contributions per year. Early Withdrawal Penalty Exceptions - SECURE 2.0

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Beginning with catch-up contributions to be made next year, employees whose Social Security wages (W-2, Box 3 wages) exceed $145,000 this year can make catch-up contributions on a Roth, after-tax basis only. And then there’s the teeny, tiny glitch of Congress dropping the section of the tax code allowing any catch-up contributions.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Act are: Starting in 2025, long-term, part-time employees – those workers with at least two years’ tenure and who have worked a minimum of 500 hours – must be able to participate in their company’s retirement plan. Starting in 2023, if a retirement plan allows for it, employees can elect for their employer match to receive Roth tax treatment.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 31, 2023

The two-year extension continues the relief until January 1, 2025. Any amounts contributed while a participant is ineligible must be included in the participant’s taxable income and are subject to an additional 10% excise tax. The act also delayed the Statutory-Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 4% provider reimbursement cut until 2025.

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Also, employees will be able to carry over up to $640 next year into 2025 if they have funds left over in their account, if their employer allows it (it’s optional). An FSA must be funded exclusively through employer contributions or employee pre-tax contributions, or a combination of the two. That’s up $30 from this year.

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Kollath CPA

JANUARY 5, 2023

As explained by the IRS , the work opportunity tax credit is equal to 40% of up to $6,000 wages paid or incurred, with a maximum credit of $2,400, for an employee who: Is in their first year of employment. Both taxable and certain tax-exempt employers located in the United States and some U.S. territories can claim this credit.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The employee saves the income tax and national insurance (NI) contributions and the employer makes savings on the amount of salary that has been sacrificed. The employee gets a brand new, maintained car at corporate rates, and save most of the value-added tax (VAT) they would pay on a personal lease. What are the benefits?

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 4, 2024

Two new limits will be introduced in April to control tax relief on pension lump sums. The lifetime allowance (LTA) is the total value an individual can build up in their combined pension savings without incurring a tax charge: for most people in the tax year 2023/24 this is £1,073,100.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Unlike traditional 401ks, Roths are not tax-deferred. With Roth accounts, employees pay taxes on their retirement contributions in their regular paycheck. Sutton’s reasoning … tax math. With pre-tax deferral accounts, a person pays taxes on the entire balance of their account in retirement. “If

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

MARCH 23, 2023

These payments can be excluded from taxable income and are not subject to payroll tax. As such, student loan payments made between March 27, 2020, and December 31, 2025, are eligible. The student loan repayment benefit was set to expire until Congress pushed back the provision’s sunset date.

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Employee Benefits

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The deal will see the implementation of the real living wage backdated to April 2023, a £250 one-off payment, and a commitment for living wage increases for 2024 and 2025 as part of a three-year deal. Browns Manufacturing made a profit after tax of £4.2 After rejecting a pay offer from the employer of £10.90

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Employee Benefits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Employees pay 5% so this equates to an extra £312 a year, but after-tax relief, this is just over £20 a month. We believe this should be carried out over two to three years starting no later than April 2025 on a phased basis so that employers and employees can get used to the increased contributions.”

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 17, 2023

Following much speculation around what the Budget would have in store for pensions tax relief, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt went further than expected, abolishing the lifetime allowance limit on tax-free pension contributions, as well as increasing the annual allowance from £40,000 to £60,000.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Congress has chosen to pay for it by mandating that plans offering certain 401(k) features, like catch-up contributions, be made on an after-tax, Roth basis. Every mention of the word “Roth” will require significant adjustments to your payroll system to accommodate after-tax withholding. For plan years beginning in 2025, SECURE 2.0

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Employee Benefits

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The examples are based on a basic rate tax payer earning either £20,000, £30,000 or £40,000 per year. Example 1: Sam[1] – Basic rate tax payer, earning £20,000 per year The employee increases pension contributions by 1% of salary which is matched by the employer. 2025 UK adults aged 22+ in full time employment were surveyed.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Most notably, the program has been expanded to include section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity plans (“403(b) plans”). On October 21 st , the IRS announced changes to its qualified plan determination letter program. The determination letter program provides important protection against this untenable result.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

MARCH 23, 2023

These payments can be excluded from taxable income and are not subject to payroll tax. As such, student loan payments made between March 27, 2020, and December 31, 2025, are eligible. The student loan repayment benefit was set to expire until Congress pushed back the provision’s sunset date.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 30, 2023

Employees may not realise that whilst it may make relatively small savings each month, the impact on retirement savings to be used in later life will be dramatic due to lost employer contributions and tax relief.” 2025 UK adults aged 22+ in full time employment were surveyed.

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Patriot Software

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Employers now have until 2024 (and in some cases, 2025) to claim the credit retroactively. Think it’s too late to take advantage of the Employee Retention Credit? Think again. So, how do you know if you qualify for the credit? And, what are the steps for claiming Employee Retention Credit retroactively?

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 10, 2022

Then there is the issue of tax relief for low earners. More generally, the pensions environment is evolving and is very active currently, which may affect employers, both this year or in the future.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JUNE 23, 2023

Participants can elect whether to make catch-up contributions on a pre-tax and/or a Roth basis. This $145,000 limit will be adjusted for inflation beginning in 2025. The 2023 catch-up contribution limit is $7,500. As of January 1, 2024, SECURE 2.0 refers to “wages” as defined in Section 3121(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 11, 2024

It will then be extended to 30 hours for those with a child aged under five in September 2025. Operated via a salary sacrifice arrangement, employees can save money as a result of reduced tax and national insurance contributions (NICs). A workplace nursery scheme involves establishing a link between an organisation and a nursery.

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They will also lose out on the valuable tax benefits available in the pension scheme. It’s usually better to leave the money invested in a pension fund where it keeps its tax-free status, and only withdrawing when it is actually needed.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The employee benefits from tax savings due to the reduced benefit in kind tax rates for electric cars, currently 1% for pure electric vehicles. Driving sustainable action’ is one of our firm’s values, and sustainability is a key part of our growth strategy, with a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2025,” adds Connolly. “We

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cipHR

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It’s worth remembering that it’s an employee’s responsibility to check they’re on the right tax code, as it impacts how much tax they pay – whether it’s too much tax or too little. For the 2021/22 tax year (and through to 2025/26), the tax code for most people under 65 who only have one job or pension is 1257L.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025 – next year – and they want their employers to be socially responsible. Green Car Scheme – tax and NIC savings for employer and employee. Pluxee Card – up to 15% cashback on everyday essentials. Education and tracking tools – help employees budget.

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Higginbotham

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Offering retirement benefits also makes financial sense because they often come with tax incentives. This is a new option that went into effect on March 27, 2020, and is set to end on December 31, 2025, assuming it’s not extended. The IRS says employers can use education assistance programs to help pay workers’ student loans.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Tax incentives introduced to buoy up the struggling furniture manufacturing sector during the pandemic, for example, support the traditional, procurement approach. The Report supports this view with an ambition to introduce a standardised approach to ecolabelling for as many products as possible by 2025.

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Best Money Moves

MAY 9, 2023

million people) will be working remotely by 2025. Assisting employees with their mental health is a great way to ensure their stress and burnout is low during particularly taxing tasks and projects. Here are 5 benefits that are ideal for remote and hybrid workers.

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Money Talk

AUGUST 3, 2022

This phrase was designed to encourage investors to buy tax-free municipal bonds that provide a higher after-tax return than higher-yielding taxable bonds. In a more general way, the advertisement was also promoting the concept of tax-efficient investing. no tax for New Jersey residents on a New Jersey-issued bond).

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Griffin Benefits

JUNE 29, 2023

This rule will apply to employers who have started retirement plans after December 29, 2022, and take effect for plan years starting in 2025. This material was created for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as ERISA, tax, legal or investment advice. The SECURE Act 2.0

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

According to the government, implementation is likely to occur from 2025. This is to ensure that those with limited mobility and mental health conditions are not automatically deemed unable to work or told to look for work. Its Back to Work plan, supported by more than £2.5

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Employee Benefits

MAY 17, 2023

The current government has announced reforms to flexible working legislation, and a 32-hour working week formed part of Labour’s 2019 election manifesto, so we may see this area receiving greater focus as we move closer to a general election by January 2025.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 15, 2023

It will be extended to working parents with children aged nine months and above in September 2024, and to every working parent with a child aged under five in September 2025, allowing parents 30 hours of free childcare so they can return to work as soon as maternity or paternity leave ends.

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Best Money Moves

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Plus, there’s more of an incentive than ever to consider this benefit in 2022: last year, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, allowing employers to make tax-free contributions of up to $5,250 a year to their employees’ student debt, without the payments being included in the employees’ taxable income.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2021

However, these provisions are the same in both bills: The percentage used to determine whether employer-provided health benefits are affordable would drop to 8.5%, from 9.61% (for 2022), and wouldn’t be inflation-adjusted through 2025.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (“2023 CAA”) Section 4151- Congress extended HDHP telehealth relief under 2022 CAA through plan years beginning before January 1, 2025. For calendar year plans, this extension means that the plan may offer the telehealth relief for the 2023 and 2024 plan years.

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