This post was authored by Dan Colacino, Vice President of Underwriting and Compliance at Rose and Kiernan, Inc. We recently highlighted how the House and Senate’s tax bills could impact employers, but the timeline and details of the final bill were still somewhat uncertain. Now both chambers of Congress have passed the final version of their tax cut bill – referred to rather disingenuously as “reform”. It’s assumed that the President will sign the bill on Friday, and then the

As Congress ends the 2017 session, there are a number of important issues left unaddressed, primarily due to partisan feuds in both Houses. They did manage to pass another Continuing Resolution (CR), to keep the government running through January 19, 2018. A CR is basically a “kick the can down the road but not too far down the road” piece of legislation that extends the prior year budget with some additional pieces of legislation thrown in. As we’ve said before, the Federal