No Tax on Health Care Benefits for 2010 or 2011 or…
How can you tell it’s an election year? By the sheer number of scare tactics and outright lies being shuffled about.
An email is making the rounds – again – suggesting that health care benefits will appear on forms W-2 and will be taxed.
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