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Survey: Millennials Are Fiscally Focused and Responsible
Often perceived as irresponsible job hoppers, Millennials are actually loyal to their jobs as long as employers pay them fairly – and while they carry more student debt than any generation before, that's not stopping them from moving forward with ...
Congress Probes $7 Billion in ObamaCare Payments to Insurers
The House Ways & Means Committee has released a 150-page report claiming the Obama administration effectively pilfered $7 billion from taxpayers.
2016 Fringe Benefits Tax Series #6: Dependent Care Assistance Plans
To help ease the burden of hard-working parents, employers may institute a dependent care assistance plan for employees. Under such a plan, payments made to third parties like babysitters and day care centers are excluded from income if the costs ...
2016 Fringe Benefits Tax Series #8: Cash In on Employee Discounts
Does your business offer discounts to its employees and family members? This can be a valuable fringe benefit to your workers and shows that you believe in your own brand. But does a discount qualify for a tax exclusion? It depends.
2016 Fringe Benefits Tax Series #7: Educational Assistance Plans
If some of your employees are looking to go back to school, or to enroll in college courses for the first time, you might decide to lend a helping hand. An employer can set up a program that effectively pays for all or most of the costs on a tax-free ...
2016 Fringe Benefits Tax Series: #5: Dine At Work On The IRS
Does your business provide meals to its employees in your own cafeteria or by other means? Generally, the cost of this fringe benefit is deductible by the business and tax-free to the employees, but only as long as certain tax law requirements are met.
3 Ways Women Can Improve Their Retirement Odds
Women, with longer life expectancies and lower average salaries, are much more concerned than men about whether they will be able to save enough money to have the kind of retirement they want, studies show.
2016 Fringe Benefits Tax Series: #3 Let’s Get Physical!
The statutory requirements for on-site athletic facilities are precise. If you operate a gym or similar facility on the business premises, the value of the benefit is exempt from tax and deductible by the company as long as substantially all use at ...