On May 3, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Minimum Value of Eligible Employer-Sponsored Plans and Other Rules Regarding the Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit (the ―Proposed Rule‖) related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111–148 (124 Stat. 119 (2010)). The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments to the IRS’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking since policies involving employees’ benefits can have profound impacts upon supermarket industry, including the approximately 3.5 million Americans it employs.

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