IRS explains PPACA for plain folks

PPACA provides for many exchange users to get tax credit subsidies they can use to pay for coverage while the tax year is still under way. Consumers who get too much help from the advance premium tax credit (APTC) are supposed to pay the excess APTC payments back to the government.

That guide includes a worksheet for computing the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income, a table for showing how a family’s income compares with the federal poverty limit, and a worksheet consumers can use to see whether marriage led to them receiving excess advance premium tax credits.

The IRS also has posted:

Notice 2014-55 — a notice that lets full-time workers in Section 125 cafeteria plans who have access to employer-sponsored major medical coverage and then end up becoming part-time workers get their coverage from a PPACA public exchange instead.

Notice 2014-56 — a notice that sets the “applicable amount” an employer must use to compute the Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee for plan years ending on or after Oct. 1, 2014, at $2.08. The old PCORI amount was $2.

Notice 2014-49 — a notice that sets the rules for how an employer should treat an employee for employee counting purposes when the employee transfers from a position governed by one measurement period to a position governed by another measurement period.