Obamacare Small Business Health Insurance Plan

By Jeannie Monette


Small businesses have perennially found it expensive to insure themselves and provide similar cover to their employees. Obamacare small business health insurance has provided tax breaks to enable this sector to afford ample cover to their employees and their facilities without incurring huge expenses. Each state has a market place or SHOP from where eligible businesses can select and purchase their most fitting packages.

The packages depend on the size of your full-time workforce. Tax break is provided for businesses with more than 50 employees. These employees must be on full-time basis or equivalent. Their annual wage is another consideration and the total amount if such an employee has a family. The policy on employers with less 25 workers takes effect in 2014. The wage bill must be below 50,000. These businesses are provided with credits to cover for premiums paid for these employees.

It is possible to claim the breaks back to the year 2010. This covers businesses that have been providing such cover over the past years. The clause on employers with a workforce of over 100 people will be implemented in 2015. Their total wages should be more than 250,000 dollars. The other name used for this clause is employer mandate.

The policy requires that any employer with a workforce between 50 and 99 persons to provide health cover by 2016. This includes employees whose terms of engagement qualify them as full time employees. The penalty for noncompliance is 2000 dollars and 3000 dollars if your employees get their cover from the market place. The amount should be factored in the end of year federal income tax returns.

The medicare part A tax has been increased by 0.9 percent for businesses making more than 250,000 in profits. This cost will be shared between the employer and the employee. The employer takes a 0.45 percent with the remaining percentage being taken by the employee. It affects individuals whose annual income is 200,000 dollars and families whose annual income is 250,000 dollars or more.

Businesses with over 50 employees are required to inform them of their entitlement and exchange or market rates. Direct enrollment opens in 2015 but individuals can begin to enjoy services at the SHOP in November 2014. Businesses with more than 50 workers have to wait until November 2015 to begin direct enrollment.

Small businesses are allowed to purchase SHOP plans through agents and claim their breaks when it opens in November 2014. This tax is carried back retroactively for the previous years. It also may be carried forward to the future. The important factors in the plan include size of your full-time workforce and your profits over the year.




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