Many employers have received IRS Letter 5699 over the last several weeks. Letter 5699 is being issued to employers whom the IRS has deemed may be an Applicable Large Employer (ALE) for purposes of compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the IRS has no record of their 1094 and 1095 forms for a Tax Year since 2015.

Since the Affordable Care Act became effective in March of 2010 employers and their advisors have gone through many iterations of studying the legislation, waiting for guidance from the Federal Government on how to comply, listening to prognosticators predict its demise, learning about potential changes to the law, etc. We are now entering our fourth year of compliance with the Employer Shared Responsibility provisions, and all the IRS reporting and filing that comes with it.

When migrating to a new system or introducing different benefit plans during a calendar year the data required for compliance will not be readily available for compliance. This is a prime opportunity for a one time use of a Value Added Network (VAN) used on an outsourced basis.

The IRS has released the employer penalties for non-compliance with the ACA for Calendar Year 2018.

Healthcare is consistently identified as one of the top 2 or 3 issues in the USA according to many polls. Healthcare is at or near the top of most employers Human Capital Management agendas as well.