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How ACA Affects Employers with fewer than 50 Employees

4/27/2016

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Most employers have fewer than 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalent employees and are not subject to the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility provision.

If an employer has fewer than 50 full-time employees, including full-time equivalent employees, on average during the prior year, the employer is not an Applicable Large Employer for the current calendar year.  Therefore, the employer is not subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions or the employer information reporting provisions for the current year.
Calculating the number of employees is especially important for employers that have close to 50 employees or whose workforce fluctuates throughout the year. To determine its workforce size for a year an employer adds its total number of full-time employees for each month of the prior calendar year to the total number of full-time equivalent employees for each calendar month of the prior calendar year, and divides that total number by 12.

Employers with 50 or fewer employees can purchase health insurance coverage for its employees through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP).

5 Reasons to use the SHOP Marketplace when offering employee insurance
  1. The SHOP Marketplace offers high-quality plans from private insurance companies.
  2. You have choice and flexibility. You can:
    • Offer your employees one plan, or let them choose from multiple plans
    • Offer only health coverage, health and dental coverage, or only dental coverage
    • Choose how much you pay toward your employees’ premiums, and whether to offer coverage to their dependents
    • Decide how long your employees’ initial enrollment period is, and how long new employees must wait before joining the plan
  3. You can handle everything online — applying, choosing plans, managing your coverage, and paying your premiums — whenever it’s convenient for you
  4. You can use your current agent or broker, work with any SHOP-registered agent or broker, or handle everything yourself. You won’t pay more if you use an agent or broker.
  5. If you have fewer than 25 employees, you may qualify for a Small Business Health Care Tax Credit worth up to 50% of your premium costs.

Employers that have fewer than 25 full-time equivalent employees with average annual wages of less than $50,000 may be eligible for the small business health care tax credit if they cover at least 50 percent of their full-time employees’ premium costs and generally if they purchase coverage through the SHOP. 

Employers that provide self-insured health coverage must file an annual information return reporting certain information for individuals they cover. This requirement applies regardless of the size of the employer’s workforce. Self-insured employers with fewer than 50 full-time employees should have provided the 2015 information returns, Forms 1095-B, to their employees by March 31. The deadline for sending information Forms 1094-B and 1095-B to the IRS is May 31, or June 30 if filing electronically.

For more information, visit our Determining if an Employer is an Applicable Large Employer page on IRS.gov/aca.

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