Jack from Ohio

You are correct. Must be added as paid wages. This includes 941s as well. If the employer has not been reporting correctly, 1st, 2nd & 3rd quarter 941 may need to be amended. In some instances, adding the necessary income to 4th quarter 941 may work. Each situation will be different. No more pre-tax compensation for employees health insurance premiums. Effective Jan. 1, 2014.

Revisit this on Feb. 28 and let us know.

Whose name is the purchaser of the policy. If the church, it will qualify as an employer provided plan. If it purchased by the pastor, my answer stands.

Looking at your profile pic... Do you have any employees named Abby?

Pacun has the correct advice.

I do not have the physical room for even 2 with the current layout of my office. This WILL be changed for tax year 2015. I am totally jealous of your three monitors. At the firm, I have two. When I work at home, it feels like I am working with a huge handicap.

You are NOT correct. Paying the premiums must be added to his W-2 as income. IF the church was providing group health insurance, then it would be different. No different than any other business. Unless it is a group policy, paying premiums for employees can no longer be pre-tax.

We will also be held liable for verification of these. All this study and requirements for due diligence were thrust upon us by Congress, the Senate and the President. I am making sure that all my clients know this. I have no remorse in charging extra.

For my practice in a small rural town, minimum of $25 additional (check the box only) to a max of $100 additional if through the marketplace or no insurance. I will have a separate line with this additional amount. It will be designated: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act surcharge. I am considering including the phone numbers for our Representative and both Senators in the line below it.

I know the IRS will accept 2013 & 2012 e-filed returns. Does anyone know if all the states will be accepting them for the same years? I would like to have a heads up instead of getting rejections. Easier to create paper at the beginning. Anyone have any source?

The shareholders CAN take above the line deduction for self-employed health insurance. However, the employees must have any money given to pay medical insurance premiums added to box 1, 3 & 5 of the W-2. Schedule A is the only deduction option for the employees.

That large an expense for ONE client? Probably would not stand up at audit.

YES, Definitely!! Prices are reasonable now. Boot time from pushing the button to my desktop, 7 seconds.

I think we have all felt your frustrations! Here is an idea... Implement a large fee increase across the board. This will cause some clients to go elsewhere. You will have lower client load, but the same or higher income. If you were closer, I would be negotiating to purchase your practice. However, being in Ohio makes that impossible. Hang in there and know that you have a group here that will support you, no matter what decision you make.

Another living example of CCH and their customer service.

Keep in mind that plan costs are location sensitive. Even down to county specific. There is no generic amount to be used.

Have you experienced this?

Too much information to share here. I have several clergy clients and notice a couple of glaring things. 1. The church is to issue ONLY a W-2 for the pastor. No other method is correct. 2. Housing allowance must be treated in several specific ways by the church. Most church treasurers/secretaries do not understand the proper methods of payroll or housing allowance for clergy. I am a distance from you, but would be willing to talk to the new pastor AND the church treasurer. Clergy taxes are not difficult, just different.

There is none. This went away with 2012 software.

Yes. 2848. I am still in shock that I actually passed the EA tests!!

That is NOT the case in most instances. My wife's is being drastically reduced due to it being "too good." Our out of pocket expense will increase 1,600% for 2016. Her employer, over 1,000 employees decided not to pay the "Cadillac tax" on the healthcare plan. The old plan WAS compliant. The president said, before the law was passed: "If you like your plan, you can keep it" had no reference to "compliant." The speaker is totally out of touch with reality of the working people and adding things to what the President said, in order to "cover" for the failed plan and the people that passed it. I refuse to spread untruths to my clients, whom already know better. The speaker is out of touch with the real world of working people.

Don't rollover the clients, rollover the payers. Also make sure the payer manager is checked in preferences.

No comment, lest it be considered political activism.

Good luck with this tax season.

I found this site with a complete listing of extension requirements for the States. http://www.irs.com/articles/state-tax-extension-information