The IRS will assess excise tax penalties on employers that fail to comply with health coverage rules under the Affordable Care Act, relieving employers of what some had feared would be a process based on self-assessment, a Groom Law Group attorney told BNA Jan. 3.
“I was really anticipating that the IRS would require employers to figure out for themselves whether they owed any excise tax, to be on the hook and have to worry about whether they had tripped up under any of the rules,” said Christine L. Keller, a principal at Groom Law Group in Washington and leader ...