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The three federal agencies in charge of implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 want to know how small employers' use of stop-loss programs, or insurance for self-insured health plans, affects the market for fully insured small group coverage.

Advisors sometimes ask me what defines a key employee. Now that Charlie Sheen quotes are pass, its not enough to respond that a key employee is one who is winning. We need to offer more meat to the definition.

The House GOP measure would let employers with fewer than 500 workers deduct 20 percent of their domestic earnings this year a calculation that would let businesses show a smaller income before determining the taxes they owe.

Republicans cast themselves as champions of small business as they pushed a bill toward House passage Thursday that would cut taxes for nearly every employer in the country. Democrats called the measure merely the latest GOP effort to funnel federal help to those who are already successful.

Those who get Social Security, railroad pensions and federal disability payments will have to arrange to receive direct deposit or a debit card, starting next year.

President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans.

There's only about one action you can take at this late date to reduce your 2011 taxes, contributing to an individual retirement account for 2011.

The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care.