Obamacare & How It Affects Your Business

By Jeannie Monette


Health insurance benefits all which is particularly true with regards to your employees and business. Not everyone though has the opportunity to apply and get the much needed amount of insurance coverage and this applies true to small business. However, it is now easy to provide individuals a measure of insurance coverage today with the emergence of ObamaCare. Doubts and speculations often arise to small time business owners on how this can affect their business entirely.

A penalty will be paid to those who do not purchase and provide the necessary health insurance for their workers under the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare by 2015/2016. Those who comply with ObamaCare small business health insurance requirements are given nice incentives such as tax breaks and tax credits available via SHOP exchange. This applies well to small businesses that have an equivalent of 25 full-time employees or less. Small business isn't totally affected by ObamaCare today since 90% of US firms have less than 20 full-time employees.

The much needed insurance coverage may be hard to achieve especially today due to rising health cost giving small business problems in providing insurance to their employees. In small businesses with 50 or more employees however, ObamaCare is requires employers to insure their full-time employees. As mentioned before, if one ever decides to make use of ObamaCare they get a good amount of privileges such as generous tax credits to businesses with 25 or less full-time employees.

With the employer insurance mandate, business owners will need to start insuring their workers by 2016. This mandate is included and is officially part of the Employer Shared Responsibility. To those who did not provide or offer health coverage to their 50 or more full-time employees will be required to pay for an annual employer mandate fee. This is based on full-time equivalent employees and not just full-time employees. It should also be noted that unlike employer contributions to employee premiums, the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment is not tax deductible.

Discerning full-time and part-time employees under ObamaCare can be a little confusing. Under ObamaCare, those who work on an average of 30 hours a week or more and considered to be full-time and need to be provided with benefits under the law. While an average of less than 30 hours a week is considered to be a norm for part-time employees and no employer insurance mandate needs to be applied.

The necessary amount of protection is always best to be given throughout the whole course of the employment for full or part-time employees. Such coverage can give them a boost in overall productivity as well as their more. Help your business further by finding out more about ObamaCare.




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