Los programas de asistencia educativa pueden ayudar a pagar los préstamos estudiantiles de los trabajadores.

 Los programas de asistencia educativa ofrecidos por los empleadores ahora se pueden utilizar para pagar el capital y los intereses de los préstamos educativos calificados de un empleado. Tradicionalmente, estos programas se han utilizado para pagar libros, equipos, suministros, cuotas, matrícula y otros gastos educativos del empleado. Califican los pagos realizados directamente al prestamista, así como los realizados al empleado.

Por ley, los beneficios libres de impuestos bajo un programa de asistencia educativa están limitados a $5,250 por empleado por año. Normalmente, la asistencia proporcionada por encima de ese nivel está sujeta a impuestos como salario.

Aunque los programas de asistencia educativa han estado disponibles durante muchos años, la opción de utilizarlos para pagar préstamos estudiantiles está disponible solo para pagos realizados después del 27 de marzo de 2020. Según la ley actual, esta opción estará disponible hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2025.

Para obtener más información sobre otros requisitos, consulte:

Publicación 15-B, Guía tributaria del empleador sobre beneficios complementarios 

Publicación 970, Beneficios fiscales para la educación - Capítulo 10, proporciona detalles sobre lo que califica como préstamo estudiantil.

NEED A TRANSLATOR? / ¿NECESITAS UN TRADUCTOR?

Some have compared legalese to a whole different language. Speaking casually in any language can be said to have one goal: sharing information. In order to do that, the cultures of the associated language will come to a middle-ground between how much the speaker should specify their meaning and how much the listener should interpret. What this creates is a standard from which the people of a language group may communicate with each other in a way that is natural, effective, and convenient for them. This is not how the law works.

Laws such as the tax code have unique challenges to them. For one, their purpose is less to communicate the intent of a speaker and more to define procedure and restrictions. By necessity, legalese is the way that it is because it needs to describe details and relationships that could usually be left to interpretation and context. Laws can not work like that, so instead each term is either specifically defined in the document or is agreed upon jargon for byzantine legal concepts. The syntax and prose must read less like a human speaking and more like reading out computer code due and the implications to certain phrases or wording are only clear through outside reading or insider knowledge. This can make it intimidating to try and learn the how the systems that control our lives work in detail. Here is where we step in.

200GFS is a firm that has several kinds of financial, legal, and business knowledge that is relevant to the everyday entrepreneur. We have struggled on to understand these nuanced and confusing regulations so that we can offer you the best servicing possible. Our company is not satisfied with just putting numbers into boxes and calling it a day, but instead we seek to understand the greater mechanism of the US tax system so that we can understand what is the best thing you can do for yourself. With us at your side, you will feel secured in your place in this country and confident in the direction you decide to take your business and finances. So get started with us today with the information below, and we will start delving in between the lines of the law for you.

"HERE'S UNCLE SAM!"/ "¡AQUI ESTA YA!"

    The government can often feel like the boogieman for business owners. An organization that can kick down your door and take away your livelihood. The very thing you have been working on for maybe years, all of it coming undone in what may feel like an agonizingly slow yet inevitable pace. A force that requires a yearly tribute, at minimum, to be kept within its territory. And worst of all, a power that is able to do all of this with relative impunity for it is the same being that created the rules of punishment in the first place. I do not know anyone who is does not find working with the government stressful in some capacity.

    However, we can tell you that the government is not a boogieman. We at 200GFS have a wide field of knowledge regarding the financial related to the government. Don't sweat the details of wrestling with the law, we deal with that so you don't have to. So stop losing sleep because of the monster under the tax form, and get started with us with the information below.