December 10, 2019
Since the beginning of 2019, D.C. residents must have minimum essential health care coverage or pay a tax penalty. As a result, employers will have reporting responsibilities to the District. The responsibility will be satisfied by submitting the same IRS Forms 1094-B, 1095-B, 1094-C, and 1095-C to the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR). In other words, employers will file them with the IRS to comply with their federal responsibility under the employer mandate. They will then file the same forms with the OTR to satisfy their District responsibility.
The requirement applies to employers with 50 or more employees, one of whom resides in D.C. The forms will need to be filed electronically through the MyTax.DC.gov website. For this first year, the filing deadline for the 2019 forms will be June 30, 2020. In future years, the deadline will be 30 days following the IRS deadline for submitting forms.
There is no mention of the requirement only applying to self-insured employers. It appears that both fully insured and self-insured large employers would need to comply, even though the carrier for a fully insured plan will already be submitting the Forms 1094-B and 1095-B on behalf of the plan. Hopefully, future guidance will be issued prior to June 2020. We will keep you updated on any developments. In the interim, employers should work with reporting vendors and internal personnel to prepare for the new requirement.
D.C. OTR Notice 2019-04 »