Small Business Owner?...Bend over again

All businesses, regardless of business size, are quickly learning that they will be penalized by Obamacare for helping their employees purchase health insurance on their own. In the past, business owners who did not offer group health insurance were able to reimburse their employees tax free for individual health insurance policies. Recently, the IRS has prohibited these reimbursement arrangements.

I don't get it. Why should the IRS care if an employer chooses to give an employee a subsidy? It's just a benefit to the employee not unlike any other benefit. Cost of doing business, cost to keep an employee happy, etc.... Shouldn't be an IRS concern at all.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
I don't get it. Why should the IRS care if an employer chooses to give an employee a subsidy? It's just a benefit to the employee not unlike any other benefit. Cost of doing business, cost to keep an employee happy, etc.... Shouldn't be an IRS concern at all.


At least they were reasonable about the penalties: :whistle:

Beginning on July 1st, a business that reimburses more than one of their employees’ individual health insurance policies will be penalized $100 per day per employee ($36,500 per year per employee), up to $500,000.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
San Francisco Raises Minimum Wage 14%, Guess How Chipotle Responded?



Take what Chipotle is doing in San Francisco for example, a city that recently raised the minimum wage by 14 percent.

In order to make up for the extra business expense of paying their employees a higher wage, they’ve had to offset the cost by raising their prices.

From American Enterprise Institute:

From an equity research report issued to investors by global investment banking and wealth management firm William Blair on Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) – “Price Increases Have Begun Early in Third Quarter” (received privately):

• In our weekly survey of ten of Chipotle’s markets, we found the company implemented price increases in half of the surveyed markets this week—San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Orlando. In most markets, the price increases have been limited to beef and average about 4% on barbacoa and steak, toward the lower end of management’s expectation for a 4% to 6% price increase on beef.

• San Francisco, however, saw across-the-board price increases averaging over 10%, including 10% increases on chicken, carnitas (pork), sofritas (tofu), and vegetarian entrees along with a 14% increase on steak and barbacoa.We believe the outsized San Francisco price hike was likely because of increased minimum wages (which rose by 14% from $10.74 per hour to $12.25 on May 1) as well as scheduled minimum wage increases in future years (to $13 next year, $14 in 2017, and $15 in 2018).
 
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