Craig Anthony, CFA, is the founder and CEO of the Craig Anthony Group LLC. He is also an Investopedia contributor and published author. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser ...

A recent memorandum from the IRS Office of Chief Counsel serves as a helpful reminder to check in on cafeteria plan administration and ensure all processes—including claims substantiation for medical ...

A “simple cafeteria plan” is a cafeteria plan that is established and maintained by an eligible employer and with respect to which contribution, eligibility, and participation requirements are met. 1 ...

Understanding the complexities and nuances of insurance policies is rarely a simple task. This can be especially true of employer-provided healthcare plans, which offer many different types of ...

Under IRC Section 6039D, an employer sponsoring a cafeteria plan was required to file an information return with the IRS. This return indicated the number of the employer’s employees, the number of ...

If you have a cafeteria plan at your company, does it allow for mid-year election changes? Understanding qualifying events, special enrollment periods and the impact of these on you as a business ...

The IRS continues to consider the effects of the Supreme Court’s Windsor decision on federal tax law, and its most recent guidance deals with elections and reimbursements for cafeteria plans, health ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: IRS quietly extends relief for the “family glitch” to calendar year cafeteria plans in unannounced revisions to Notice 2022-41. In our October Legal Update (available here), we ...

Voluntary salary reductions for health flexible spending cafeteria plans and annual deductibles for medical savings accounts will slightly increase next year. The Internal Revenue Service announced on ...

JOHN G. SIMMONS, JD, LLM, is an attorney in private practice in Idaho Falls, Idaho. His e-mail address is [email protected] . mall employers often face the difficult task of providing benefits to employees ...