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IRS Reporting Regulations: 6055 & 6056

What Every Employer Needs to Know and Do Now

Jeffery A. Schultz Phone: 262.207.1999 ext. 112

Email: [email protected] Vice President, BeneCo of Wisconsin

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Who We Are

BeneCo of Wisconsin, Inc.:

A member of The Benefit Companies, a privately held company.

Have been providing insurance and employee benefits consulting since 1971.

A full service benefits firm serving over 1,200 companies and organizations ranging from 10 to 50,000 employees.

Headquartered in Brookfield, WI with additional Wisconsin offices in Green Bay, and Plymouth.


What Employers Need to Do in 2015 Ask these questions:

1. Do we understand and know how to apply the 2015 Transition Rules? 2. Have we determined if our Wellness Plan is both ACA and EEOC Compliant? 3. What is our defined strategy to avoid the 2018 Cadillac Tax? 4. Will our plan offerings be strategically affordable or unaffordable? 5. Are our systems capable of collecting the proper information for the 2016, 6055

and 6056 reporting? 6. Are we moving employees towards an ownership health care paradigm?

Contact us at: [email protected]

Confidentiality Statement – Portions of the information contained in this presentation represent intellectual property and are protected for use by the intended recipient only and cannot be copied.

Guest Speakers

Kathy Tunney Director

Leslie Straus President

Jeff Schultz Vice President BeneCo of Wisconsin


Topics for Discussion

• Updated IRS Reporting Timeline • Overview of Employer Reporting Requirement

– Information You Must Collect & Disclose – Who Must Receive – When Requirements Take Effect

• Purpose of Reporting • IRS Forms • Transitional Relief • Reporting Challenges & Complexities • Planning for Reporting Requirement


IRS Reporting Update


• February 4th, 2015- IRS releases Final Reporting Forms for 2014 tax year

– 2015 Forms are not expected to change

• February 1st, 2016- Employee statements are due to employees

• February 29th, 2016 – Information due to IRS (if paper filing)

• March 31st, 2016 – Information due to IRS (if filing electronically)

– Electronic filing is required for employers with 250 or more employees

IRS Update: ACA IRS Forms are Now FINAL

IRS ACA Reporting Timeline


1. 1094- B Transmittal of Health Coverage Information Return

2. 1095-B Health Coverage

3. 1094-C Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Return

4. 1095-C Employee Statement

Update: IRS ACA Reporting Final Forms


Government website links:

www.irs.gov/form1094b

www.irs.gov/form1095b

www.irs.gov/form1094c

www.irs.gov/form1095c

Update: IRS ACA Reporting Final Forms

http://www.irs.gov/form1094c







• Information provided will be used as part of the determination of whether or not an employee is eligible for a subsidy

• Purpose of the forms is to administer the Individual and Employer Shared Responsibility penalties

Purpose of Reporting Requirement


Confidentiality Statement – Portions of the information contained in this presentation represent intellectual property and are protected for use by the intended recipient only and cannot be copied.

• Compiling the information creates a significant administrative burden for the employer

• Reporting is compiled on a month by month basis

IRS Reporting Forms Administration


Information You Must Collect & Disclose


• Social Security Numbers of employees, spouses and dependents

• Names and employer ID numbers of other employers within their “controlled group” of employers

• Number of full-time employees for each calendar month

Employer Must Collect & Disclose


• Months of coverage for each covered individual

• Employee’s share of the lowest-cost monthly premium for self-only, minimum value coverage for each calendar month

• The applicable “Safe Harbor” for each calendar month



• Certifications of eligibility

• Months in which you offered minimum essential coverage by employee

• Months in which you as an employer were a member of a “controlled group”



Goal of the C Forms (1094-C & 1095-C)

Report to the IRS an employer’s compliance with the Employer Mandate and provide individual taxpayers’ tax records

Certify employee categories for their stability period:

Full Time vs Part Time

Certify plans offered meet 4980h requirements and indicate who

was offered coverage:

MEC, MV, Coverage availability, Affordability

Help employees avoid paying individual

mandate tax if not necessary


Certifying Stability Period Results

Measurement Period

Results for Each

Employee: Full-Time

or Part-Time

1095-C 1094-C

Full-Time

Part-Time

Offered & Enrolled

Offered & Waived

Not Offered

Offered & Enrolled

Parts I, II, III

Parts I, II

Parts I, II

Parts I, II, III

Total Employee Count

Total Full-Time Count

Not Offered or

Offered & Waived


Certifying Affordability Results

Coverage Type

Offered and Monthly

Self-only Low Plan

Cost

1095-C

Full-Time

>1 Month Part-Time

Offered & Enrolled

Offered & Waived

Not Offered

Offered & Enrolled

Part II, Lines 14-16

Part II, Lines 14 & 16

Unionized*

Employee

contribution? Part II, Lines 14-16

* Only if plan administered by a multi-employer plan


Who Must Receive the Information?


• Information is required to be reported to all full-time employees, including whether an offer of health coverage was or was not made

• Self Insured Plans must report for all enrolled regardless of their full-time status

• Applies to all large employers regardless of whether you offer health coverage to all, none, or some of your full-time employees

Who Must Receive


• Fully Insured Employers

– 1095-C statement from the Employer

• Parts I & II only

– 1095-B statement from the Insurance Carrier

• Self-Funded Employers

– 1095- C statement from the Employer

• Parts I, II & III

Where is the employee getting information from?


IRS Forms


1094-B


1095-B


1094-C


1095-C


Form 1095-C, Part II

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Code Series 1, Offer of Coverage

Code Description

1A Qualifying Offer: MEC/MV with employee contribution for self-only coverage equal to or less than 9.5% mainland single federal poverty line and at least MEC offered to spouse and dependent(s).

1B MEC/MV offered to employee only.

1C MEC/MV offered to employee & MEC offered to dependents.

1D MEC/MV offered to employee & MEC offered to spouse.

1E MEC/MV offered to employee & MEC offered to dependents and spouse.

1F MEC NOT providing minimum value offered to employee, or employee and spouse or dependent(s), or employee, spouse and dependents.

1G Offer of coverage to employee who was not a full-time employee for any month of the calendar year and who enrolled in self-insured coverage for one or more months of the calendar year.

1H No offer of coverage (employee not offered any health coverage or employee offered coverage that is not minimum essential coverage)

1I Qualifying Offer Transition Relief 2015

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Form 1095-C, Part II

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Code Series 2—Section 4980H Safe Harbor Code

Code Description

2A Employee not employed during the month

2B Employee not a full-time employee

2C Employee enrolled in coverage offered

2D Employee in a section 4980H(b) Limited Non-Assessment Period

2E Multiemployer interim rule relief

2F Section 4980H affordability Form W-2 safe harbor

2G Section 4980H affordability federal poverty line safe harbor.

2H Section 4980H affordability rate of pay safe harbor

2I Non-calendar year transition relief applies to this employee

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Examples

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Part II Coding Examples

Assumptions for all examples

– ALE with FT > 1000

– Utilizing Look-back Measurement Method with a Jan 1 – Dec 31 Stability Period

– Offering Self-Insured MEC / MV to Full-time Employees and Dependents

– Hourly Employee Rate of Pay is $25.00

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Part II Examples: Incorrect Entry

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Mason was an ACA Full-time employee (30 hours per week) enrolled in coverage whose hours are reduced to part-time (25 hours per week) on June 1st.

Part II Employee Offer and Coverage

14 Offer of Coverage (enter required code)

All 12 Months Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

1E 1E 1E 1E 1E 1H 1H 1H 1H 1H 1H 1H

15 Employee Share of Lowest Cost Monthly Premium, for Self-Only Minimum Value Coverage

$300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $ $ $ $ $ $ $

16 Applicable Section 4980H Safe Harbor (enter code, if applicable)

2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B


Part II Examples: Correct Entry

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1E


$300.00 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $


2C

Mason was an ACA Full-time employee (30 hours per week) enrolled in coverage whose hours are reduced to part-time (25 hours per week) on June 1st.



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Carol was an ACA Full-time employee (40 hours per week) enrolled in coverage, terminated on May 25th. She was rehired on Aug 3rd.




1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1H 1H 1H 1H 1B 1B 1B


$300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $ $ $ $ $300.00 $300.00 $300.00


2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2A 2A 2D 2D 2C 2C 2C


Part II Examples: Correct Entry

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1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1H 1H 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B


$300.00 $300.00 $300 .00 $300 .00 $300 .00 $ $ $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00


2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2A 2A 2C 2C 2C 2C 2C

Carol was an ACA Full-time employee (40 hours per week) enrolled in coverage, terminated on May 25th. She was rehired on Aug 3rd.



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Rachel was an ACA Full-time employee (Salary 60K) enrolled in coverage, terminated on July 25th. She was rehired on Oct 3rd as full-time (Salary 55K) and waived coverage. Part II Employee Offer and Coverage



1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1H 1H 1C 1C 1C


$300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $ $ $300.00 $300.00 $300.00


2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2A 2A 2H 2H 2H


Part II Examples – Correct Entry

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1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C 1H 1H 1C 1C 1C


$300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $ $ $300.00 $300.00 $300.00


2C 2C 2C 2C 2C 2H 2H 2A 2A 2F 2F 2F

Rachel was an ACA Full-time employee (Salary 60K) enrolled in coverage, terminated on July 25th. She was rehired on Oct 3rd as full-time (Salary 55K) and waived coverage.


Transitional Relief


• All Applicable Large Employers must report in 2016 for each calendar month in 2015

• Employers eligible for Transitional Relief still need to report

IRS Filing Requirement Transitional Relief


Reporting Challenges & Complexities


• New ACA definitions of old terms

• New ACA terminology

• 18 Pages of Complex IRS Instructions

• Multiple IRS Forms to Complete

• Multiple Sections that change based upon specific circumstances

• Data coming from multiple systems

• Tracking of breaks in services, FMLA, military leave, jury duty

• Translation of your data into coverage codes by month

• Data integrity

• Timing of reporting – along side W-2


Reporting – What Makes This So Complex?


• Benefit/HR Teams running at 120% of capacity

• Every month you wait you must go back and get data

• An environment of changing ACA regulation


Reporting – What Makes This So Complex?


Planning for Reporting


• Get all the ACA stake holders together to discuss:

– Benefits

– Payroll

– Human Resources

– CFO

Employer Planning

IRS Reporting is not a Benefits Problem it is a Compliance Problem


• Who is responsible for accurate and timely reporting within your organization? Specifically identified on the IRS Form!

• What internal resources do you have to commit to the new reporting requirement?

• When will you start collecting the information?

• How much time will it take you to complete the required reporting?

Employer Planning


• Reading of the 18 pages of directions 2 Hours

• Understanding of the 18 pages ?

• Transmittal Forms 4 Hours

• Each Employee 1095-C 12 minutes per employee

• Compiling and verifying the data to complete the 1095C ?

IRS Time Assumptions


Employer Cost to Complete IRS Reporting?


Employer Cost To Complete IRS Reporting?


Inaccurate Reporting = IRS Penalty Notices Documentation/Tracking Are Key


• Identified specifically in the regulations

• Employer retains liability and responsibility including penalties

Hiring a Third Party Administrator

Benefit of Outsourcing - Time and Accuracy - System of Record for Defense of Penalties


• ACA Third Party Administration

• Our ACA Services Include:

– Compliance & Administration

– Compliance Testing

– Audit Documentation

– Appealing IRS Penalty Notices

– Government Reporting

How We Can Help


• Track employee ACA data

• Collect data for reporting

• ACA System of Record

• Complete IRS Reporting

• Assist you in communication and distribution of IRS Forms

• Assistance with IRS Penalty Demand Notices

• ACA Concierge Service

Government Reporting


What Employers Need to Do in 2015 Ask these questions:

1. Do we understand and know how to apply the 2015 Transition Rules? 2. Have we determined if our Wellness Plan is both ACA and EEOC Compliant? 3. What is our defined strategy to avoid the 2018 Cadillac Tax? 4. Will our plan offerings be strategically affordable or unaffordable? 5. Are our systems capable of collecting the proper information for the 2016, 6055

and 6056 reporting? 6. Are we moving employees towards an ownership health care paradigm?


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Jeff Schultz Vice President BeneCo of Wisconsin 262-207-1999 ext 112 [email protected]

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