Governor Deval Patrick's Budget Recommendation - House 2 Fiscal Year 2015

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1.002 -Exemption of Premiums on Group-Term Life Insurance


Item DescriptionFY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
1.002 Exemption of Premiums on Group-Term Life Insurance1
Employer payments of employee group-term life insurance premiums for coverage up to $50,000 per employee are not included in income by the employee and are deductible by the employer.

Origin:  IRC S. 79
Estimate:  $21.4
10.4 18.1 19.3 20.3 21.4

Key:

ORIGIN  
IRCFederal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.)
U.S.C United States Code
M.G.L. Massachusetts General Laws
Rev. Rul.; C.B. Revenue Ruling; Cumulative Bulletin of the U.S. Treasury
ESTIMATES All estimates are in $ millions.


Footnote:

1 1 This item and others citing this endnote cover employee fringe benefits. We accept as standard the following treatment of these benefits: the expense incurred by the employer in providing the benefit is properly deductible as a business expense and the benefit is taxed as compensation to the employee as if the employee had received taxable compensation and then used it to purchase the benefit. Of course, there are problems with this analysis. In some cases, the "benefit" is more a condition of employment than a true benefit. For example, a teacher required to have lunch in the school cafeteria may prefer to eat elsewhere even if the school lunch is free. On the other hand, in many cases the provision of tax-free employee benefits is clearly a substitution for taxable compensation.


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