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Another Sign That the IRS is Moving Forward with Enforcing ACA Compliance

August 21, 2017 Robert Sheen ACA Compliance, IRS
Another Sign That the IRS is Moving Forward with Enforcing ACA Compliance

Letters released this month by the IRS continue to point to the agency moving forward with its plans to enforce the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The IRS has indicated it could be issuing penalty notices as soon as the end of the year to companies that have not filed mandated information for the 2015 tax year, for filing inaccurate or incomplete information, or for submitting information after identified filing deadlines. Organizations with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, known as Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), are required to make ACA-mandated filings with the IRS annually.

Take, for instance, the letter the IRS Office of Chief Counsel sent to U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga (R- Michigan). Rep. Huizenga had inquired if a waiver of the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP) might be provided to an ALE that had not complied with the ACA in offering required health insurance to employees for financial and religious reasons. The IRS said there is no provision in the ACA that provides a waiver of an ESRP.

In its letter, the IRS stated: “Section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code provides that if an applicable large employer (generally, an employer with at least 50 full-time employees, including full-time equivalent employees, on business days in the preceding calendar year) fails to offer health coverage to its full-time employees, and if the other conditions in the statute are met, the employer is liable under the statute for the ESRP.”

The letter notes that President Trump’s January Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal does not change the law. “The legislative provisions of the ACA are still in force until changed by the Congress, and taxpayers remain required to follow the law and pay what they may owe,” stated the IRS. For additional information on the ACA Executive Order and the current tax filing season, please visit this site.

If you are an ALE and haven’t filed your ACA-mandated information with the IRS for the 2015 or 2016 tax years, you should do so as soon as possible to minimize any financial penalties that might be levied against you by the IRS. As you can see from this recently released letter, the IRS will be enforcing the ACA and will be addressing compliance issues with those ALEs that have failed to make the ACA-mandated filings with the IRS.

Draft forms for reporting 2017 tax year information are now out for review. Learn more at this link.

You can view the other recent IRS information letters on the ESPR and the individual taxpayer mandate at these links:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/17-0013.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/17-0011.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/17-0017.pdf

To learn more about ACA compliance in 2021, click here.


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Another Sign That the IRS is Moving Forward with Enforcing ACA Compliance
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The IRS has indicated it could be issuing penalty notices for ACA non-compliance by the end of the year. Recently released IRS letters is another sign the agency is going to enforce the ACA.
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Robert Sheen

Robert Sheen

Esq., is Editor-in-Chief of The ACA Times. He also is founder, president and CEO of Trusaic.

Robert Sheen is Founder and President of Trusaic. Robert is a graduate of the University of Southern California, in Business Administration with an emphasis in International Finance. He earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, concentrating in Tax Law.

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