Question

All employees of United Company are covered by a group hospitalization insurance plan, but the employees must pay the premiums ($8,000 for each employee). None of the employees has sufficient medical expenses to deduct the premiums. Instead of giving raises next year, United is considering paying the employee's hospitalization insurance premiums. If the change is made, the employee's after-tax and insurance pay will:

Answer 1

a.Increase more for the higher income (35% marginal tax bracket) employees.

Step-by-step explanation:

As in the question it is mentioned that the United company will pay the premium of $8,000 on behalf of each employee so it would be compensated from the salary of the employee and it could be comes under the taxable income

Therefore as per the given options, the option a is correct as it would be taxed at 35% tax rate from the salaries of the employees

Therefore all the other options are incorrect