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2013 brings new Medicare taxes for higher paid employees (and new withholding and reporting for employers)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or “health care reform”) added two new Medicare taxes that become effective January 1, 2013

Startup investors and the new Medicare surtax

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 8 2012

Currently, all U.S. individual wage earners are subject to a 1.45 Medicare tax on all of their wages and self-employed individual taxpayers are subject to 2.9 tax on their “self-employment taxable income”

Severance payments and FICA - the saga continues

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 19 2012

On September 7, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the decision in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., finding that severance pay is generally not subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, or FICA

New wellness program tax credit in Massachusetts

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 15 2012

On Monday August 6th, Governor Deval Patrick signed into Massachusetts law a health care cost cutting bill (Senate Bill No. 2400) which includes a tax credit for businesses that implement wellness programs

US Supreme Court’s decision on healthcare reform: what employers should know

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2012

The United States Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

$2,500 cap on salary reduction contributions to health flexible spending accounts

  • Snell & Wilmer
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2012

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively, the "Act"), employers must move forward with implementation

Supreme Court rules on health care reform: what does this mean for employers?

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 19 2012

As most people know now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) survived review by the Supreme Court and was found to be constitutional

Current status of health care laws

  • Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 18 2012

On Thursday, June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by a 5-4 decision

Health care reform's medical loss ratio rebates and their impact on employer group health plans

  • Snell & Wilmer
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 13 2012

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively, the “Act”), employers must move forward with implementation

Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act

  • Gray Plant Mooty
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2012

On June 28, in a much-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA