If the current Affordable Care Act employer coverage reporting rules stay in place, the Internal Revenue Service has to do something to ease employers' desperation over getting accurate Social Security numbers for the employees' spouses, children and other dependents.
The Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC), a panel that gives members of the public a chance to review IRS procedures, gave the IRS that advice in a new report on 2017 tax administration concerns.
The Affordable Care Act imposed employer health coverage reporting requirements by adding Section 6055 and Section 6056 to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).
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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.
