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Teacher Non-Renewal – By The Numbers

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

One of the less-pleasant rites of spring for Connecticut’s public school districts is determining whether to non-renew the employment of their non-tenured teachers. Section 10-151 of the Connecticut General Statutes, which governs the employment of...

IRS Offers FATCA Relief, Extending Registration Deadline and Expanding Intergovernmental Agreement List

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

On April 2, 2014, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Announcement 2014-17 (the Announcement), which provides certain FATCA relief. The Announcement extends from April 25, 2014 to May 5, 2014 the deadline by which an FFI must register with...

IRS Releases Further Guidance for Retirement Plans on Treatment of Same-Sex Spouses

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

In IRS Notice 2014-19 and accompanying FAQs, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued long-awaited guidance addressing the treatment of same-sex spouses under qualified retirement plans such as 401(k) and defined benefit plans. Employers that...

The Roundup: This Week’s Recommended Reading (April 11, 2014)

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

Welcome to The Roundup for the week ending April 11. We have lots of thought-provoking pieces to share this week. From Around the Web - The Ideal Length of Everything Online, Backed by Research: What’s the ideal length of a tweet, Facebook post...

EPA Asks STB to Resolve Preemption Question

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

The Administrator of Region IX of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board (STB) for a declaratory order to address whether locomotive idling rules issued by the South Coast Air Quality Management...

Judge orders AIG to pay $7M to injured lawyer over insurer’s bad-faith conduct in accident case

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

Blasting a major insurance company for what he called unfair settlement practices in an egregious case, a Massachusetts judge Tuesday ordered American International Group Inc.

Canadian Securities Regulators Delay Implementation of Derivatives Trade Reporting

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

Canadian securities regulators announced today that trade reporting requirements for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions that involve “local counterparties” in the provinces of Ontario, Québec and Manitoba will now commence on October 31,...

Real Estate Tax Liens Attach to Persons, Not Just Property

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

In 2013, the Pennsylvania legislature passed an amendment to the Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law (Act No. 93 of 2013, the “Amendment”), designed to give municipalities and school districts improved means of collecting tax revenue. The Amendment...

U.S. Supreme Court’s Severance Ruling Impacts Future Unemployment Benefits

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

The decision in Quality Stores not only kills FICA tax refunds for millions of unemployed workers, but it also requires proactive employer actions to maximize future employer and state unemployment benefit payments to terminated workers....

CMS Releases Physician Medicare Billing Data

By EsqSocial Corporation 11/04/14

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on April 9th a “historic” release of Medicare payment data to provide consumers with “unprecedented transparency on the medical services physicians provide and how much they are paid.”...

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