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On March 23, 2010 President Obama signed into law one of the largest and most controversial pieces of legislation called the Patient Affordable Care Act (aka Health Care Reform Bill). This new legislation is so complex that it will take nearly eight years to fully implement. The first stage takes effect in 2010 with four distinct provisions. This article will address one of those provisions, The Small Business Tax Credit.

Beginning January 1, 2010, small businesses who contribute 50% or more toward their employees health
insurance premiums for are eligible for a non-refundable small business income tax credit. This provision creates two classes of employers:
1. Eligible small employers and
2. Large employers.

Eligible small employers are defined as employers with 25 or fewer full-time employees with average annual wages of $50,000 or less. Everyone else exceeding these thresholds is, by default, a large employer and not eligible for the credit.

Full-Time Employees:
To determine the number of eligible full-time employees (FTE), an employer must divide total hours worked by all employees by 2,080. Total hours worked by employees cannot include hours worked by any employee that exceeds 2,080 hours for the year. Thus, overtime is excluded from the calculation of total hours. 5% owners and 2% S Corporation shareholders are not considered employees for purposes of the full-time employee calculation.

Average Annual Wages:
To determine the average annual wage base, an employer must divide total wages paid to employees during the year by the total number of full-time employees (from previous calculation). 5% owners and 2% S Corporation shareholders are not considered employees for purposes of the average annual wage base calculation.

Calculation of the Non-Refundable Income Tax Credit:
A maximum non-refundable income tax credit of 35% will be available only to employers with 10 or fewer full-time employees and average annual wages of $25,000 or less. This credit is applied to the employer’s share of health insurance premiums and this dollar amount is the credit that is applied against business income tax (or passed through to partners or S Corporation shareholders). The amount of the credit utilized to reduce income tax reduces the employer’s health insurance deduction for the year.

These are the two baselines for the credit:

10 full-time employees and
$25,000 in average annual wages.
As the number of FTEs rise above 10 and/or the average annual wage base rises above $25,000, the credit quickly disappears. This is known as a phase-out, and because of the complexity of the formula to determine an employer’s eligible credit, a table was created to make it easier to compute the eligible credit. For example, if an employer has 11 FTEs with an average annual wage base of $15,000, the credit is 33%. For each additional FTE above 10, the credit is reduced by 2%. If an employer has 10 FTEs with an average annual base exceeding $25,000, but not exceeding $30,000, the credit is 28%. The credit is reduced by 7% as the average annual wage base exceeds the $25,000, $30,000, $35,000, $40,000 and $45,000 average annual wage base table amount. If you use the tables, the credit is 0% once the total number of full-time employees exceed 24.9 or once the average annual wage exceeds $45,999.

Other Rules:

1. Aggregation rules apply, which means affiliated companies must be aggregated in determining eligibility, the number of full-time employees and average annual wage base.
2. The credit may be applied against regular income tax and alternative minimum tax.
3. If an eligible small business employer qualifies for the credit but cannot use the credit in the current year, they may carry the credit back one year to use against the prior year’s income tax.

There is also a credit for non-profit organizations of 25%. This credit, unlike the 35% business credit, may be used to reduce the Medicare portion of payroll taxes (Form 941 will have a line item for this credit).

Tom is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Financial Planner, CLTC (Certified Long-Term Care) and President of Cerefice & Company, the largest CPA firm in Rahway, New Jersey. Tom works with clients helping them manage their money, retirement planning, college savings, life insurance needs, IRAs and qualified plan rollovers with an eye towards maximizing tax benefits and minimizing taxes. Tom is founder of the Rich Habits Institute and author of “Rich Habits”.

How much tax/duty does the average person pay (% of income) and where are we in the world tax league table?

By tax and duty I mean the tax and duty the average person pays per year (e.g. income tax, VAT, duty on petrol/cigarettes/spirits, tax on insurance, tax on flights etc etc etc)
This question relates to UK

The best way to calculate overall tax rates is to add up everything the country earns (the GDP) and everything the government spends. Expressing government expenditure as a percentage of GDP gives an overall measure, and automatically takes account of all exemptions and also of double taxation (e.g. when we buy petrol out of taxed income, then pay duty and finally pay VAT on the duty we’ve already paid). It also aggregates personal and corporate taxation – which is important, as even corporate taxation (invisible to the average wage earner) still comes out of his efforts.

As I understand it. the government currently spends rather more than 50% of our GDP. This means that our own spending decisions affect less than half of what we work for. That man in Downing Street spends the rest for us.

It is well known that what the government does on our behalf is badly done – look at health, education, border policing etc. Perhaps there is a case for some sort of yearly ballot to set the percentage of our money the government is allowed to take. Then we could perhaps reclaim some of the freedoms we have progressively lost over the last few years.

Federal Income Withholding Tax Tables for 2009, 2010

income tax table

INCOME TAX-FILING INFORMATION

Should I submit the declaration?

You must file a declaration federal income tax if you are a citizen or resident of the United States or a resident of Puerto Rico and you meet the filing requirements of one of following categories that apply to you.

The filing requirements apply even if you do not have taxes.

1. People general:

If you are a citizen of the United States or resident must file a return depends on three factors:

• Your gross income
• Marital status and
• Your age.

The gross income. This includes all income levied in money, property, goods and services that are not exempt from taxes.

marital status. Their status depends whether you're single or married and family situation. Your marital status is determined during the final day of its fiscal year, which is December 31 for most taxpayers.

Age. If you are 65 or older at year-end general may have a greater quantity gross income of taxpayers others before you need to file. It is considered the 65 days before his 65th birthday.

2. The people Load:

If you are a dependent See table above to determine whether to file a return.

Responsibility parents. In general, a child is responsible for submitting your tax return and pay any income tax. But if a child dependent must file a tax return can not file for any reason, such as age, then a parent, guardian or other person legally must gift for the child. If the child can not sign the statement, the parent or guardian must sign the name of the child by words "By (signature), parent of minor children."

The earnings of children. Amounts a child earns by services scene are gross income. Namely true even if the local law of the child the parents are entitled to benefits and may even have received. If the child do not pay tax on that income, the father is liable for tax.

3. Children under 18 years:

If the income of a child's interest and dividends (Including capital gains and dividends the Alaska Permanent Fund), and certain other conditions are met, a parent may choose to include the statement of income on children's parents. If this choice is made, the child does not file a return.

4. Own-account workers:

You are employed yourself if:

• Make a trade or a sole proprietorship,
• If you are an independent contractor
• If is a member of an association, or
• If you are a sole proprietor in any other way.

Self-employment may include additional work full-time activities, such as part-time jobs to make some at home or in addition to their regular jobs.

5. Aliens:

Its status as a resident alien, nonresident, or dual residency and how it determines whether you must file a tax return.

resident abroad. If you are a resident alien all year, you must file a tax return following the same rules that apply to citizens of the United States. Use the forms mentioned in this publication.

nonresident alien. If you are a nonresident alien, the rules and tax forms that apply to you are different from those that apply to U.S. citizens and foreign residents. See Publication 519 to determine U.S. law if the income tax applicable in your case and which is a file.

dual status taxpayer. If you are a resident abroad by the year and a nonresident alien for the rest of the year, you are a dual resident taxpayer. Different rules apply for each part year. For more information on dual status taxpayers, see Publication 519.

Who must file?

Even if you do not need to file, you must file a federal return money if one of the following conditions apply.

1. You had federal income tax on your wages or payments estimated tax.
2. You are eligible for the earned income credit for working. See Chapter 36 for more information.
3. You are eligible for the tax credit for additional children. See Chapter 34 for more information.
4. You are eligible for credit Tax health insurance. See Chapter 37 for more information.
5. You are eligible for the refundable tax credit for the previous year minimum tax

What if I made a mistake?

Errors can delay your refund or result in notices sent to you. If you find an error, you can file an amended return or claim reimbursement.

You must correct your statement, if, after having presented, we find that:

1. You do not report some income,
2. You claimed deductions or credits you should not have claimed,
3. You do not claim deductions or credits that would have been entitled, or
4. You must have requested a different marital status. (A Once you file a joint declaration, you can not choose to file their returns separately for this year after the date of expiry declaration. However, the executor may be able to make this change for a deceased spouse.)

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