Tax Facts

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Health Insurance

Disability Income Coverage
Q 194 How is personal disability income coverage taxed?

Q 195 How is employer-provided disability income coverage taxed?

Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Q 158 What requirements apply to employer-provided health plans?

Q 159 Is the value of employer-provided coverage under accident or health insurance taxable income to the employee?

Q 160 Are payments received by employees under employer-provided accident or health insurance taxable income?

Q 161 Are benefits provided under an employer’s noninsured accident and health plan excludable from the employee’s income?

Q 162 What nondiscrimination requirements apply to employer provided health benefits?

Q 163 How are amounts paid by an employer to highly compensated employees under a discriminatory self-insured medical expense reimbursement plan taxed?

Q 164 What are “domestic partnership” benefits, and how are they taxed?

Q 165 How are accident or health benefits taxed if they are provided by a closely held C corporation to its stockholder-employees only?

Q 166 How is health insurance coverage for partners, sole proprietors, and S corporation shareholders taxed?

Q 167 May an employer deduct the cost of premiums paid for accident and health insurance for employees as a business expense?

Q 168 What is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) and how is it taxed?

Q 169 Are wage continuation payments under an accident and health plan subject to withholding?

Q 170 Is employer-provided “sick pay” subject to Social Security and federal unemployment tax?

Q 171 Must an employer who maintains an accident or health plan file an information return with respect to the plan?

Q 172 What notice must an employer who maintains an accident or health plan provide to Medicare-eligible individuals?

Q 173 What coverage continuation or “COBRA” requirements must certain group health plans meet?

Q 174 Are all employers subject to the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 175 What is a qualifying event for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 176 What is meant by the term “gross misconduct”?

Q 177 How long must COBRA continuation coverage be provided?

Q 178 Who is a qualified beneficiary for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 179 Who is a covered employee for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 180 Who must pay the cost of COBRA continuation coverage and how is the cost calculated?

Q 181 What is the Health Coverage Tax Credit?

Q 182 When must an election to receive COBRA continuation coverage be made?

Q 183 What notice of COBRA continuation coverage is required?

Q 184 Which entity is responsible for providing COBRA continuation coverage following a business reorganization?

Q 185 What is the effect of noncompliance with the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 186 What portability, access, renewability, and coverage requirements must be satisfied by group health plans?

Q 187 What are the rules concerning preexisting condition exclusions under HIPAA ’96?

Q 188 What are the rules concerning discrimination based on health status under HIPAA ’96?

Q 190 What is the Guaranteed Renewability requirement?

Q 191 What rules apply to group health plan benefits provided to newborns and mothers?

Q 192 What penalties apply to a group health plan’s failure to meet the portability, access, and renewability requirements?

Q 193 Can health benefits be provided for employees under qualified pension and profit sharing plans?

Estate Taxation
Q 646 Is an accidental death benefit payable under a health insurance policy includable in the insured’s gross estate?

Q 647 Are medical expense reimbursement insurance proceeds received by the insured decedent’s estate includable in the gross estate?

Gift Taxation
Q 719 Is the gift tax exclusion for qualified transfers available for amounts paid for health insurance?

Health and Medical Savings Accounts
Q 157.01 What is the penalty for an individual who chooses to remain uninsured?

Q 167.01 What is the credit for employee health insurance expenses of small employers?

Q 196 What is a Health Savings Account (HSA) and how can one be established?

Q 197 Who is an “eligible individual” for purposes of a Health Savings Account (HSA)?

Q 198 What is a “high deductible health plan” for purposes of a Health Savings Account (HSA)?

Q 199 What are the limits on amounts contributed to a Health Savings Account (HSA)?

Q 200 Must an employer offering Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to its employees contribute the same amount for each employee?

Q 201 What is the penalty for making excess contributions to a Health Savings Account (HSA)? May excess contributions be withdrawn or reduced?

Q 202 How are funds accumulated in a Health Savings Account (HSA) taxed prior to distribution?

Q 203 How are amounts distributed from a Health Savings Account (HSA) taxed?

Q 204 Under what circumstances may an account owner transfer (roll over) funds into an HSA?

Q 205 Can an individual’s interest in a Health Savings Account (HSA) be transferred as part of a divorce or separation?

Q 206 What happens to a Health Savings Account (HSA) upon the death of the account holder? Can a surviving spouse continue the account?

Q 207 Are amounts contributed to a Health Savings Account (HSA) subject to Social Security taxes?

Q 208 Are employer contributions to a Health Savings Account (HSA) on behalf of an employee subject to withholding?

Q 209 What tax reporting requirements apply to a Health Savings Account (HSA)?

Q 210 What is an Archer Medical Savings Account (MSA) and how is it taxed?

Long-Term Care Insurance
Q 314 What is a qualified long-term care insurance contract?

Q 315 What are “qualified long-term care services”?

Q 316 How are long-term care contracts issued before 1997 treated?

Q 317 Are premiums paid for a qualified long-term care insurance contract deductible as medical expenses?

Q 318 May a self-employed individual deduct premiums paid for a qualified long-term care insurance contract?

Q 319 Are long-term care insurance premiums paid by an employer includable in income to the employees?

Q 320 May an employer deduct as a business expense the premiums paid for a qualified long-term care insurance contract for employees?

Q 321 Are benefits received under a qualified long-term care insurance contract taxable income?

Q 322 How is a long-term care insurance policy that is not a “qualified long-term care insurance contract” taxed?

Q 323 What reporting requirements are applicable to long-term care benefits?

Personal Health Insurance
Q 154 Are premiums paid for personal health insurance deductible as medical expenses?

Q 155 Are the benefits received under a personal health insurance policy taxable income?

Q 156 If the benefits received for specific medical expenses exceed those expenses, must the excess be treated as reimbursement for other medical expenses?

Q 157 If an annuity is used to fund a judgment on or settlement of a claim for damages on account of personal injuries or sickness, how are the damage payments taxed?

Quick Clicks
Q 108 What is a flexible spending arrangement?

Q 168 What is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) and how is it taxed?

Q 173 What coverage continuation or “COBRA” requirements must certain group health plans meet?

Q 174 Are all employers subject to the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 175 What is a qualifying event for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 176 What is meant by the term “gross misconduct”?

Q 177 How long must COBRA continuation coverage be provided?

Q 178 Who is a qualified beneficiary for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 179 Who is a covered employee for purposes of the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?

Q 180 Who must pay the cost of COBRA continuation coverage and how is the cost calculated?

Q 181 What is the Health Coverage Tax Credit?

Q 182 When must an election to receive COBRA continuation coverage be made?

Q 183 What notice of COBRA continuation coverage is required?

Q 184 Which entity is responsible for providing COBRA continuation coverage following a business reorganization?

Q 185 What is the effect of noncompliance with the COBRA continuation coverage requirements?