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the terminated employee is otherwise eligible to enroll in COBRA. If the employee has an adjusted gross income in 2009 over $125,000 if filing as single ($250,000 if filing jointly), then the subsidy will be recaptured in a phased manner from the employee through the tax system.
An employer in the United States may provide transportation benefits to their employees that are tax free up to a certain limit. Under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 132(a), the qualified transportation benefits are one of the eight types of statutory employee benefits (also known as fringe benefits) that are excluded from gross income in calculating federal income tax.
The Equal Access to COBRA Act was a bill which would amend the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Public Health Service Act to extend COBRA health insurance coverage to qualified beneficiaries, defined to include domestic partners.
The cornerstone American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law in February, contained a key provision to help the newly unemployed keep their employer-sponsored health-care plans. Most ...
A Qualified Employee Discount is defined in Section 132(c) as any employee discount with respect to qualified property or services to the extent the discount does not exceed (a) the gross profit percentage of the price at which the property is being offered by the employer to customers, in the case of property, or (b) 20% of the price offered for services by the employer to customers, in the ...
Most businesses of 20 or more employees are required to offer an extension of your insurance when you leave a full-time job, thanks to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act — or COBRA.
A wage subsidy is a payment in direct opposition to income tax. It can be presented as a modification to the operation of income tax below its threshold. In a conventional system the tax payable on an income y may be shown by the solid red line in the diagram, where θ is the threshold. Under a wage subsidy the employee's contribution to the ...
Deferred compensation plans in the US often have the benefit of employers' matching all or part of the employee contribution. In the US, Internal Revenue Code section 409A regulates the treatment for federal income tax purposes of “nonqualified deferred compensation”, the timing of deferral elections and of distributions. [26]