{"id":151,"date":"2014-03-13T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-03-13T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:48:42","slug":"health-insurance-w-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/health-insurance-w-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance on W-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"1040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1040-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>You may be wondering if you have to report the value of your employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, which may appear on your W-2, Wage and Tax Statement when you file your 2013 federal income tax return.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>The health care law requires certain employers to\u00a0report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>The amount of employer-sponsored health insurance\u00a0coverage appears in Box 12 of the W-2, and has the code letters \u201cDD\u201d next\u00a0to it.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Reporting the cost of health care coverage on the Form\u00a0W-2 does not mean that the coverage is taxable or that it needs to be\u00a0reported on your tax return.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>The amount is only for information, and shows the\u00a0 payments made by you and your employer and is not included in the amount\u00a0shown in Box 1, which is the amount of taxable earnings.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be wondering if you have to report the value of your employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, which may appear on your W-2, Wage and Tax Statement when you file your 2013 federal income tax return. The health care law requires certain employers to\u00a0report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}