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COBRA: Don’t Pick It Up As Part Of Your Next Deal

"Who has to pay for COBRA coverage?" is a question we often hear from transaction lawyers and their clients in a stock sale or an asset sale.  COBRA requires some employers to provide certain participants and their beneficiaries with group health ...
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Form 5500: Are You Sure You Are Filing All That Are Required?

Advice on how and when to file Form 5500… How can filing an annual return/report on a Form 5500, a relatively simple information return that does not require the payment of any taxes, become so complicated and result in such huge penalties for ...
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Health Reimbursement Arrangement Can Be Used To Convert Unused Vacation And Other Leave Into Nontaxable Welfare Benefits

In the employee benefits arena, employers and advisors are often looking for ways to convert taxable wages or benefits into nontaxable benefits. One method that the IRS has recently recognized involves an employer's adoption of a "health ...
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Health Care Reform: Are You A “Large” Employer

A large employer is one that for a year employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees (at least 30 hours per week) on business days during the preceding calendar year. In order to make this determination, the employer must not only count all ...
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Employee Aggregation Rules: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

First In A Series It was not a dark and stormy night--at least it didn't start out that way. Instead, it was a sunny and calm afternoon, and a routine year-end review meeting was taking place between the owners of SMALLCO (a manufacturing ...
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Employee Aggregation Rules: Controlled Groups

Second In A Series In our last episode we left our heroes spending a dark and stormy night arguing about who screwed up and failed to recognize that SMALLCO and SMALL Vineyards had to be considered one employer for employee benefit plan ...
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