The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has tried to boil the new tax Form W-2 health benefits cost reporting requirements down into terms that mortals without advanced accounting credentials can understand.

Wanda Valentine, a senior tax analyst at the IRS, writes about the new W-2 reporting requirements in an employer newsletter.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) requires the IRS to establish health benefits cost reporting requirements. Later, the IRS is supposed to set up a program to impose an excise tax on health benefits packages with costs that exceed a designated threshold.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.