Kingfisher
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Jogeephus":3d45y3n9 said:Kingfisher":3d45y3n9 said:What exactly do you mean by all this? I'm curious because I keep asking folks like accountants what the deal is with health insurance
and employees today. I heard there is a tax credit of @8500.00 per employee but not sure what sort of health insurance provisions must be met today. What sort of fines are you speaking of? Thanks in advance.
Its simply a fine (tax) you have to pay for each employee you hire. I have to do it each year but this is the first year I had to go out of my way and have an affidavit signed swearing that I am an AMERICAN. This just wasted two hours of my day getting this done but I'm sure this all has something to do with their collecting statistics to show how good a job homeland security is doing keeping illegals out of the country or something.
As for the health insurance deal I can't get any good answers on this either but there was a seminar this summer and I can tell you what they said there. First of all, if you hire a person and this person works more than 30 days you must offer them health insurance and if you refuse to do so you will be fined $600 per employee. More importantly, the definition of an employee is anyone who works more than 30 days which INCLUDES contract laborers or illegals. As for the illegals, all new employees must be checked through a form you can get through Homeland Security but to do it right there is a three inch book you can study to be sure you do it properly but you might need to hire an attorney to muddle through this thing. But in summary, the homeland security check list says you must employ anyone who can offer you two forms of ID which includes a drivers license and a social security card and failing to hire them due to their apparent illegality or race, creed, sexual orientation will result in a discrimination suit and fine. Additionally you can also use E-verify to check the documents. This is the government's check site but it is wrong 27% of the time and if you do not hire someone based on erroneous data then you can get in trouble for discrimination. However if you do hire an illegal then you will face a fine and the second offence could lead to them shutting down your business. Oh, if an insurance company refuses to insure you they will be fined $100 per day. That's about all I got out of the meeting.
Thanks for your reply. And just who exactly enforces all this ?