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The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been the law of the land since March 23, 2010. Under the provisions of the law, nearly every American is required to have an insurance plan on or before April 15, 2014 in order to avoid certain penalties mandated under the Act. After many separate repeal attempts and a lengthy court battle that resulted in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding the law, more than 8 million...
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Certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are set to take effect in 2014, some of which may have an impact on taxpayers. The PPACA, more colloquially known as “Obamacare,” is the new healthcare law that sets up either a state or government run health exchanges. Along with the change in healthcare accessibility comes a change in taxes.
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Yasmin D. Brenner has been tapped to lead R&G Brenner’s newly created Insurance division. The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is now in effect, which means that every citizen must have health insurance which meets a minimum standard of coverage by March 31st, 2014 or be assessed a monetary penalty (this penalty can grow to over $2000 per family by 2016!).
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In a recent landmark ruling by the Obama Administration, the federal government will recognize same-sex married couples. That means for one, married same-sex couples will no longer have to file two separate single tax returns for the IRS (however, if they currently reside in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriages, they may still have to file two separate state returns). But the IRS has not released any guidance about how employee...
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The following IRS Video explains the new area where Health Insurance coverage is to be reported on future W-2s.