In the days before health care reform, the IRS permitted employers to determine the maximum amount an employee could set aside tax-free in a Flexible Spending Account. But that was then, and this is now.

Employers have been killing off defined pension plans for years now. But terminating one isn't as easy as simply closing it down.

Key facts employers need to know about deductions, credits, whats taxable and more if they're setting up a health insurance plan for employees.

The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday with no sign of a way out after a White House conversation between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders seemed only to harden the stances of Democrats and Republicans.