Phil Ash

There is an old and, we admit, very sick joke about a criminal defendant being charged with murdering their parents and then objecting to the charge because they’re an orphan. Fact follows fiction, with a twist: This defendant’s unique take on ERISA.

2026 W-2 changes, per diem rates, the future of Direct File and more in our back-to-school wrap.

FIRE-to-IRIS transition, TCCs and the Void indicator.

Group health plans are subject to ERISA and regulated by the Department of Labor. If the DOL snags you, hefty excise taxes are levied by the IRS. It’s the perfect time to dust off your plan documents and associated paperwork to assess compliance with ERISA.

We have spilled many pixels over the last many Tuesdays on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s tax provisions affecting Payroll and individuals. Today we’re turning our attention to select business provisions.

Delays to payroll answers, withdrawn DOL regs, National Taxpayer Advocate feedback and more in our Friday wrap.

Social Security is facing some existential questions. The Social Security Board of Trustees released its 2025 annual report on the health of the Social Security Trust Funds. The trust fund is projected to become depleted in 2033, the same as last year’s estimate, with 77% of benefits payable at that

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will oversee this effort, which will include recommending apps. The gist of this initiative requires siloed information stored at separate physicians’ practices to be combined into one giant database.

Computers, of course.