Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 (Tamra): Employee Benefits

Determination that group plans offering legal services are limited to an annual tax-free benefit of $70 per employee; group plans may offer employer-provided educational assistance plans on a tax-exclusion basis to employees, with the exception of graduate school expenses; if an employer elects to treat highly compensated employees as those earning in excess

of $50,000, then the employer must have significant business operations in at least two geographically separate locations; and each plan must be tested for discrimination on a date to be chosen by the employer in 1990, and the same date must be used each year in the future unless a date change is approved in advance by the Secretary of the Treasury.