What is the Fate of ACA? No Answers Yet from the Fifth Circuit.

Posted on: January 14, 2020 By:

Background

As noted in our previous December 2018 blog post, “Texas Judge Declares the Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional – What’s Next?,” and our October 2019 newsletter, “2019 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health & Welfare,” on December 14, 2018, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled the whole of ACA to be unconstitutional in Texas v. United States of America, No. 4:18-cv-00167. The plaintiffs (certain Republican-led states and two individuals) alleged, and Judge O’Connor agreed, that the repeal of the individual mandate “renders legally impossible” the Supreme Court’s prior savings construction of ACA and that the individual mandate is not severable from the rest of ACA. Read More ›

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Full Steam Ahead: IRS Moves Forward to Collect Affordable Care Act Penalties

Posted on: April 25, 2017 By:

As efforts to reform the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) stall in Congress, a recent government report suggests that the Internal Revenue Service is preparing to identify and collect employer shared responsibility penalties.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued the report, Affordable Care Act: Assessment of Efforts to Implement the Employer Shared Responsibility Provision, two weeks after House leadership retracted a bid to repeal and replace the ACA.

The report indicates that the IRS processed over 400,000 Forms 1094-C (Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns) and nearly 110 million Forms 1095-C (Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage) as of last October.  Read More ›

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