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A cafeteria plan or cafeteria system is a type of employee benefit plan offered in the United States pursuant to Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. [1] Its name comes from the earliest versions of such plans, which allowed employees to choose between different types of benefits, similar to the ability of a customer to choose among available items in a cafeteria.
A cafeteria plan - also known as a Section 125 plan, after the portion of the IRS code that regulates the plans - lets employees redirect part of their salaries and wages to pay for certain benefits.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended Section 125 [7] such that FSAs may not allow employees to choose an annual election in excess of a limit determined by the Internal Revenue Service. [8] The annual limit was $2,500 for the first plan year beginning after December 31, 2012. [9]
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), commonly referred to as “Section 125” plans or “Cafeteria” plans, were developed as part of Internal Revenue Code Section 125 to provide employees with tax relief for their un-reimbursed medical and dependent day-care costs.
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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]
According to the IRS, an HRA "must be funded solely by an employer. Contributions cannot be paid through a salary reduction agreement (such as a cafeteria plan). [12] While ICHRAs and integrated HRAs have no annual contribution limits, the QSEHRA is capped by the IRS. [13] These limits are updated each year through IRS revenue procedure.
The IRS plans to go after 125,000 high-income earners who did not file tax returns going back to 2017 — and the agency says hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid taxes are involved in these ...