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What enforcement power does the IRS have to collect “shared responsibility payments?”
According to tax attorney Kenneth Burns with the business law firm Kolesar & Leatham of Las Vegas, “The penalty will be imposed if you fail to provide sufficient information with your tax return that you have acceptable coverage, or you are exempt.”
The IRS is limited in its ability to collect the penalty. “Once the IRS has assessed a penalty,” says Burns, “there is no enforcement mechanism for collecting the penalty other than reducing a taxpayer’s refund.”
The ACA does not allow the IRS to file a Notice of Tax Lien for failure to pay the penalty. This means the IRS cannot attach a lien to your wages, bank accounts or personal assets. “Further,” says Burns, “no criminal prosecution or penalty may be imposed on anyone for refusal to pay the individual mandate penalty.” While tax evasion is a serious crime, failure to pay the ACA penalty will not land a taxpayer in jail.
The only way the IRS can collect the penalty from those that do not voluntarily pay is by offsetting any refund, current or future, due the taxpayer. For those that are not entitled to a refund, the penalty does not go away; it will be carried to future years.
Enforcing The Health Law Mandate: What The IRS Can & Can’t Do
originally posted by: onequestion
Let em take it from me in pints of blood idgaf.
Let's send a message. Everyone empty your bank accounts.
originally posted by: shadowposter
So the government can force you to buy a product? What form of government is that again?
originally posted by: shaneslaughta
a reply to: xuenchen
Haha Xuenchen i always cringe when i see that. I wonder if that statement actually eased anyone's mind?
originally posted by: RalagaNarHallas
hrrm i wonder whats gonna happen to the IRS budget now that the republicans are in control of senate and house......perhaps some funding cuts are required
www.politico.com... from june but i guess they allready started making cuts before the election so i see more funding cuts in the IRS future over the whole tea party targeting scandal as the republicans seem to be taking over as many funding committees as possible
thehill.com...
from october but showing a theme its kind of hard to enforce a penalty if you have no one to enforce it due to budgetary concerns ....unless the irs wants to start working for free
Republicans vow to put the clamps on the IRS if they sweep to power in November. GOP lawmakers and aides believe that House-passed legislation to limit the IRS’s reach would have a better shot at making it to President Obama’s desk if Republicans win control of the Senate on Nov. 4. Full Republican control of Congress would give the GOP added leverage over the IRS, doubling the panel’s oversight of an agency that drew conservative ire by improperly scrutinizing Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status. The intensified oversight would be particularly damaging to the IRS’s increasingly public role in another GOP target, ObamaCare. The agency scheduled to start enforcing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty in 2015. “Most of the oversight has, frankly, been taking place in the House,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of the IRS’s most consistent critics in Congress, told The Hill.
www.forbes.com... forbes take on the matter
www.ipi.org... they dont need to repeal it just take its teeth away and defund its enforcers
Republicans won’t be able to repeal Obamacare as long as President Obama is in office, but they can make a big dent in one of its most egregious and unconstitutional flaws: Simply eliminate the penalties for not having coverage. At his post-election press conference, Obama reasserted that he would oppose efforts to repeal the individual mandate that requires Americans to have Obamacare-qualified coverage. All right, then how about just repealing the fines the IRS can impose on the uninsured? Who cares if there is a mandate to have coverage if there’s no penalty for not having it? People would be free to get whatever coverage they wanted, or none at all, and they would face no penalty.
www.businessinsider.com...
www.commonwealthfund.org... te
originally posted by: shadowposter
So the government can force you to buy a product? What form of government is that again?
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: shadowposter
So the government can force you to buy a product? What form of government is that again?
Marxist/Fascist/Socialist
All "Authoritarian" methods are Left Wing based.
It's for your protection as well as ours.
originally posted by: onequestion
Let em take it from me in pints of blood idgaf.
Let's send a message. Everyone empty your bank accounts.
originally posted by: mwood
a reply to: mysterioustranger
I originally read when the "law" was being passed that if you do not have insurance the "penalty" will be automatically withdrawn from your account at the bank. If you have no account or have zero money in it they will suspend your drivers license till it's paid and or put a lean on property you own like a vehicle or house.