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Tax expenditures (i.e., exclusions, deductions, preferential tax rates, and tax credits) affect the after-tax income distribution. The benefits from tax expenditures, such as income exclusions for employer-based healthcare insurance premiums and deductions for mortgage interest, are distributed unevenly across the income spectrum.
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) are pre-tax funds that you can use for health or dependent care expenses. There are benefits and risks to using FSAs.
From what Medicare is to how to understand your out-of-pocket maximums, we answer your important Medicare questions for 2021.
An employer in the United States may provide transportation benefits to their employees that are tax free up to a certain limit. Under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 132 (a), the qualified transportation benefits are one of the eight types of statutory employee benefits (also known as fringe benefits) that are excluded from gross income in calculating federal income tax. The qualified ...
A cafeteria plan or cafeteria system is a type of employee benefit plan offered in the United States pursuant to Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. [1] Its name comes from the earliest such plans that allowed employees to choose between different types of benefits, similar to the ability of a customer to choose among available items in a ...
WebMD explains health savings accounts (HSA) and flexible spending accounts (FSA) and the tax benefits of each.
See how to maximize tax deductions when you’re self-employed.
An HSA can provide savings: Just like an FSA, you won’t be charged income tax on the funds in your HSA. You can have HSA contributions taken out of a paycheck pre-tax, or you can choose to ...