January 31st, 2016 for statements given to employees/individuals and February 29th for transmittal's filed to the IRS (and WAS March 31st if you are filing over 250 employee statements to employees). Keep in mind, this is the information that the IRS will use to penalize the individual or the employer if they are not offering appropriate and affordable coverage and is used by the individual when preparing their personal tax returns.
Now, the IRS announced that it will be giving employers additional time. According to Notice Notice 2016-4, the IRS is delaying filing deadlines to allow employers, insurers and other providers additional time to get information together for the reporting. The NEW deadlines are:
- Statements given to employees/individuals is now March 31, 2016 (Two Additional Months)
- Transmittal's filed to IRS (Paper) is now May 31st, 2016 (Three Additional Months)
- Transmittal's filed electronically in now June 30th, 2016 (Three Additional Months)
Hope you find this information helpful and Happy New Years!
The Cadillac tax is slated to take effect in 2018 for individuals with health insurance plans worth more than $10,200 a year or families with plans worth more than $27,500. That's $850 for an individual plan and includes other things like Employer HSA contributions, Employer HRA Contributions, Wellness plans, pre-tax policies for specific disease or illness plans (Cancer Policy). The tax itself is a 40% non-deductible excise tax on any amount above these thresholds. Under the tax, those plans that are fully insured, employers calculate and insurers pay the tax, for Self-funded plans, the employers calculate and "the person who administers the plan benefits" pays and under HSA's and HRA's Employers calculate and employers pay.
The tax was included in the law to curb the highly comprehensive, highly expensive health plans as well as help raise funding for the ACA, an estimate 87 Billion over the next ten years.
Now that we are getting closer to point of impact, even democrats are no longer supporting the tax because it's not really a tax on "Cadillac Plans" but many mid-level plans simply because of the rising cost of health care.
"The 'Cadillac Tax' will raise barriers that would deprive patients of needed cancer screenings, diagnostic tests and lifesaving treatment," said Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who is the sponsor of a House bill to repeal the tax. "We must repeal this onerous tax before it diminishes the progress we have made since enactment of the ACA."
