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IRS will be enforcing your purchase of Health Care Insurance!
REP. RON KIND (D-WI): And IRS agents are not going to go out and auditing taxpayers to verify if they have obtained acceptable health insurance, will they?
(IRS Commissioner Daniel) SHULMAN: No. … [I]t’s probably worth me being very clear because I think there have been some misconceptions out there. The way we envision this working is that HHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the exchanges will be working with the insurance companies to determine what is acceptable coverage.
All that will happen with the IRS is similar to a current 1099 where a bank sends IRS a statement that says “here’s the interest” someone owes, and they send it to the taxpayer. We expect to get a simple form — that we won’t look behind — that says this person has acceptable health coverage. There are not going to be any discussions about health coverage with an IRS employee.
We expect to get a simple form — that we won’t look behind — that says this person has acceptable health coverage.
Originally posted by Terapin
Are you so willing to pay for freeloaders? If so, then please pay for my insurance too.
Originally posted by harvib
reply to post by links234
What do you think is going to happen when they don't receive a form saying an individuals has acceptable coverage?
KIND: And no taxpayer is going to be subject to any IRS liens or levies, or jail time, for failing to disclose insurance requirements to the IRS?
SHULMAN: That is what the legislation calls for, yes.
Originally posted by links234
Apparently, nothing.
KIND: And no taxpayer is going to be subject to any IRS liens or levies, or jail time, for failing to disclose insurance requirements to the IRS?
SHULMAN: That is what the legislation calls for, yes.
Why don't you just call the IRS and say, 'What happens if I don't get insurance and refuse to pay a fine?' Then tell us all how it went.
Health care gets added to your taxes. You usually get a tax return at the end of the year.
Now your return will be less because your health care was taken off, any funds owed to you by your government will have the health care adjusted to it. If you want to pay your health care and taxes by yourself, go ahead, but if you dont, the government will.
Originally posted by harvib
reply to post by tom goose
Health care gets added to your taxes. You usually get a tax return at the end of the year.
Now your return will be less because your health care was taken off, any funds owed to you by your government will have the health care adjusted to it. If you want to pay your health care and taxes by yourself, go ahead, but if you dont, the government will.
This is not how the legislation works. Maybe if you understood the legislation you would understand the valid point some of the "paranoid freaks" are making.