31A-32a-103 - Establishing medical care savings accounts. - Utah Statutes

31A-32a-103. Establishing medical care savings accounts.
(1) For a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 1995:
(a) an employer, except as otherwise provided by contract or a collective bargainingagreement, may offer a medical care savings account program to the employer's employees; or
(b) a resident individual may establish a medical care savings account program for theindividual or for the individual's dependents.
(2) (a) A contribution into an account made by an employer on behalf of an employee, ormade by an individual account holder may not exceed the greater of:
(i) $2,000 in any taxable year; or
(ii) an amount of money equal to the sum of all eligible medical expenses paid by theemployee or account holder for that taxable year on behalf of the employee, account holder, orthe employee's or account holder's spouse or dependents.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(ii), eligible medical expenses are limited toexpenses in the taxable year that an insurance carrier has applied to the employee's or accountholder's deductible.
(3) An employer that offers a medical care savings account program shall, before makingany contributions:
(a) inform all employees in writing of the fact that these contributions may not bedeductible under the federal tax laws; and
(b) obtain from the employee a written election to participate in the medical care savingsaccount program.
(4) Except as provided in Sections 31A-32a-105 and 59-10-114, principal contributed toand interest earned on a medical care savings account and money reimbursed to an employee oraccount holder for eligible medical expenses are exempt from taxation.
(5) (a) An employer may select a single account administrator for all of the employer'semployee's medical care savings accounts.
(b) If a single account administrator is not selected, an employer may contribute directlyto the account holder's individual medical care savings account.

Amended by Chapter 389, 2008 General Session