Obamacare Small Business Health Insurance

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.

By 2016, businesses employing between 50 and 99 individuals are required to provide full cover. The cover is for those engaged on full time basis. The penalties for not insuring workers by 2015 include a shared responsibility fee of 2000 dollars. This will be submitted alongside end of year federal income taxes. If employees get their subsidies through the market place, an employer is required to part with 3000 dollars instead.

There has been an increase of . 9 percent on medicare part A tax for businesses with more than 250,000 dollars in annual profits. The figure is split into half between the employer and the employee. Employees who are affected by this increase are those who make 250,000 annually as a family or 200,000 as individuals.

Businesses with over 50 employees are required to furnish their workers with information about their market place or exchange rates. The SHOP will be opened in November 2014 while direct enrollment takes effect from the beginning of 2015. Employers with over 50 employees will have to wait for November 2015 for 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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