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The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought major change to the accounting profession as individuals and companies are increasingly turning to accountants and tax preparers for help in complying with new health care mandates and ...

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding eligible employees that now is the time to begin planning to take full advantage of their employer’s health flexible spending arrangement (FSA) during 2016.

A terrific idea for businesses for a lot of reasons, application hosting allowed users to have online access to desktop versions of their software from any location – a win-win in the business world, where more and more employees are working from ...

With millions of Americans lacking adequate retirement savings, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has launched myRA, a simple, safe and affordable new savings option for those who don’t have access to a retirement savings plan

Do you provide flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for your employees? Generally, if the FSAs aren't emptied out by year-end, the employees must forfeit the unused funds ... forever.

Known as required minimum distributions (RMDs), these payments normally must be made by the end of 2015. But a special rule allows first-year recipients of these payments, those who reached age 70½ during 2015, to wait until as late as April 1, 2016 ...

This checklist is designed to be a compliance aid to assist with identifying issues and opportunities with a client’s health care coverage readiness. However, it does not detail every potential issue that may be encountered.

In recent years, retirement planning has received plenty of attention. In 2011, the first of the baby boomers reached what used to be known as retirement age. That kicked off an 18-year run for boomers, who’ll be turning 65 at a rate of about 10,000 ...