Obamacare

Earlier this week, Accounting Today hosted a Web seminar on Understanding Affordable Care Act Reporting.

Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., along with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and seven of their Democratic colleagues in the Senate, have introduced legislation to repeal a tax on so-called “Cadillac” health plans.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the accuracy of how it decides which fees health insurance providers are supposed to pay each year under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new government report.

The new ACA Information Center page on IRS.gov features information and resources for employers of all sizes on how the health-care law may affect them.

A new bipartisan effort to cancel Obamacare’s so-called Cadillac tax, the 40 percent levy on high-cost health insurance plans, adds a wrinkle to an impending fight in Congress.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice advising taxpayers that the Treasury Department and the IRS intend to propose regulations providing that health insurance issuers must report coverage in catastrophic health insurance plans.

The Internal Revenue Service says employers can now do a trial run of their electronic form filing for reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act, giving nervous employers and their benefit advisers a way to test for readiness in advance of the reporting deadlines.

The Internal Revenue Service did not finish testing a centralized data repository of health insurance coverage with federal and state exchanges in time for last tax season, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s processing of tax returns that reported or claimed Premium Tax Credits during the 2015 filing season was challenged by delays in receiving data from some health insurance marketplaces and exchanges, and overpayments of Advance Premium Tax Credits, according to a new government report.

Paychex has released a list of what it sees as the top regulatory issues of this summer.