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The IRS Finalizes Regulations for ACA Premium Tax Credits

July 26, 2017 Robert Sheen IRS, Premium Tax Credit
The IRS Finalizes Regulations for ACA Premium Tax Credits

The IRS on July 24 finalized regulations for the use of premium tax credits. These are the tax credits provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to help lower income families and individuals subsidize the cost of premiums for healthcare insurance purchased through the Health Insurance Marketplace.

The final regulations amend the Income Tax Regulations (26 CFR part 1) under section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) relating to the health insurance premium tax credit and under section 162(l) of the Code relating to the deduction for health insurance costs for self-employed individuals.

The previously proposed regulations, issued back in July 2014, were approved with only one correction as to how the limitation amount is calculated in the case of a self-employed taxpayer who claims a section 162(i) deduction.

Essentially, the correction reflects that individuals who are self-employed cannot claim a deduction that exceeds their earned income. The final regulations clarify that such income is “equal to the lesser of (1) the sum of the specified premiums for the plan not paid through advance credit payments, the limitation amount, and any deduction allowable under section 162(l) for premiums other than specified premiums, or (2) the earned income from the trade or business with respect to which the health insurance plan is established.”

The other final IRS regulations provide:

  • married victims of domestic abuse or spousal abandonment the ability to claim a premium tax credit without filing a joint return if the taxpayer files a married-filing-separately tax return and meets certain conditions.
  • allocation rules for situations where premiums, the premiums for an applicable benchmark plan, and advance payments for a qualified health plan must be allocated between two or more taxpayers within the same household. The regulations provide specific allocation rules for married individuals who file separately, formerly married individuals who divorced or separated during the taxable year, or individuals enrolled in a qualified health plan with one parent, but are claimed as a dependent by the other parent who is not enrolled in the plan.

The IRS memo can be found at this link.

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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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