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- How are employees taxed if they pay for group term life insurance through a cafeteria plan?
- From the February 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company would like to offer a group term life insurance benefit to employees, but we can’t afford to pay any of the premiums. Could our employees pay the premiums for their coverage through our cafeteria plan? ...
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- How is an employee's qualified bicycle commuting benefit affected if the employee uses another qualified transportation fringe benefit?
- From the February 18, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has a qualified transportation plan with mass transit and parking benefits. If we add a qualified bicycle commuting reimbursement benefit, how will our existing benefits affect the bicycle benefit? Will an employee’s use of other ...
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- Is there a dollar-value threshold that we can use to determine whether small non-cash gifts to employees are subject to federal income tax?
- From the January 14, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company would like to give employees occasional, inexpensive gifts to recognize special efforts, contributions to a work team, innovative ideas, and the like. We are not interested in doing this, however, if the gifts will be subject to ...
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- How do we calculate the maximum nontaxable discount we can give on services to employees when we also provide discounts to customers?
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company uses the qualified employee discount rules to offer employees nontaxable discounts on company services. We also provide our customers with discounts that vary depending on the customer’s size and certain other factors (for example, whether ...
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- When can a cents-per-mile method be used to determine the value of an employee's personal use of a company car?
- From the July 02, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our executive employees has complained that we reported too much income for his personal use of a company car. He says we should have used a cents-per-mile method to determine that value. The method we ...
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- How are the tax rules different for domestic and foreign adoptions under a qualified adoption assistance program?
- From the May 14, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company wants to implement a qualified adoption assistance program. We have heard that the tax rules for domestic adoptions differ from the tax rules for foreign adoptions. Is that true? If they are different, is there a way ...
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- When can employees be reimbursed for monthly parking expenses under a qualified transportation plan?
- From the April 09, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has a qualified transportation fringe benefit plan that lets employees elect to have their compensation reduced on a pre-tax basis to pay for parking expenses. Many employees purchase monthly parking passes on the first day of ...
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- What benefits can we offer under our company's cafeteria plan?
- From the February 26, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company maintains a premium-only cafeteria plan (POP) under which employees who elect company-sponsored major medical coverage can pay their share of the premiums with pre-tax dollars. We are thinking of amending our cafeteria plan to ...
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- Do qualified transportation plans funded by pre-tax employee compensation reductions create any financial risk for the employer?
- From the January 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company is thinking about sponsoring a qualified transportation plan. I understand that these plans are similar to cafeteria plans in that employees can reduce their compensation on a pre-tax basis to pay for benefits. But under the ...
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- What Rules Apply to PTO Buying Under a Cafeteria Plan?
- From the August 21, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We’re considering amending our cafeteria plan for 2009 to allow employees to buy additional paid time off (PTO). How does PTO buying work under a cafeteria plan? ANSWER: A PTO buying feature under a cafeteria plan allows ...
