The Affordable Care Act imposes significant new reporting requirements on Idaho employers, and unless they prepare now, they will be hard pressed to satisfy the January 2016 deadline. The IRS recently finalized the forms and instructions employers will use to ...
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Employees should prioritize retirement plan document restatements 
Many Idaho employers that sponsor qualified retirement plans use plan documents that have been pre-approved by the IRS and are maintained by plan service providers such as a third party administrator or plan recordkeeper. All pre-approved defined contribution plan documents ...
Read More »Employers, it’s time to determine same-sex spouse benefits
Both supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage in Idaho are on hold after the United States District Court for the District of Idaho’s decision invalidating Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban was delayed pending appeal to the United States Court of Appeals ...
Read More »Employers should start now to prepare for health care reform
Last July, when the Obama administration announced the one-year delay, until Jan. 1, 2015, in imposing the employer-shared-responsibility penalties of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often referred to as health care reform), many Idaho employers slammed the brakes ...
Read More »Employers: Start now on preparing for ACA 2015 deadline
Last July, when the Obama administration announced the one-year delay, until Jan. 1, 2015, in imposing the employer-shared-responsibility penalties of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many Idaho employers slammed the brakes on their compliance efforts. Even though 2015 ...
Read More »Employer-provided spousal benefits face different requirements from state to state
Idaho-based employers with employees in multiple states could be subject to significant penalties and litigation if they do not comply with the laws of each state regarding group health coverage and other benefits provided to the same-sex spouses of employees. ...
Read More »DOMA guidance affects Idaho employers
The Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor invalidating Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act requires the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages valid under state law. Because employee benefit plans are regulated by federal law, many questions ...
Read More »DOMA invalidation could affect Idaho employers
Whether a valid same-sex marriage in one state must be recognized for federal purposes in Idaho is a complicated constitutional question.
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