Publication 969 |
2001 Tax Year |
Employer Participation
This section contains the rules that employers must follow if they
decide to make MSAs available to their employees. Unlike the previous
discussions, "you" refers to the employer, and not to the
employee.
Health plan.
If you want your employees to be able to have an MSA, you must make
available to them a high deductible health plan. You can provide no
additional coverage other than those exceptions listed previously.
See High Deductible Health Plan, earlier.
Contributions.
You can make contributions to your employees' MSAs. You deduct the
contributions on the "Employee benefit programs" line of your
business income tax return for the year you make these contributions.
Comparable contributions.
If you decide to make contributions, you must make comparable
contributions to all comparable participating employees' MSAs. Your
contributions are comparable if they are either:
- The same amount, or
- The same percentage of the annual deductible limit under the
high deductible health plan covering the employee.
Comparable participating employees.
Comparable participating employees:
- Are covered by your high deductible health plan and are
eligible to establish an MSA,
- Have the same category of coverage (either self-only or
family coverage), and
- Have the same category of employment (either part-time or
full-time).
Additional tax.
If you made contributions to your employees' MSAs that were not
comparable, you must pay an additional tax of 35% of the amount
you contributed. See Form 5330, Return of Excise Taxes
Related to Employee Benefit Plans, to report and pay this tax.
Employment taxes.
Amounts you contribute to your employees' MSAs are generally not
subject to employment taxes. You must report the contributions in box
13 of the Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, you file for
each employee during the calendar year. Enter Code "R" in box 13.
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