IRS Already Gearing Up for Health-Care Crackdown

IRS Already Gearing Up for Health-Care Crackdown

They want $300 million and 4000 new employees for the "Mandate" enforcement !!!

I doubt the revenues from "healthcare" enforcement will even be that much !!

What is Congress thinking about with this anyway ?


Published March 29, 2012
FOXBusiness

The rest of the country may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, but the Internal Revenue Service is wasting no time.

It wants to add new agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303.5 million building a system to oversee the effects of the health law even though its future is unclear.

As for the new IRS workers, the Government Accountability Office said the total will be about 4,500, with nearly 4,000 (3,997) slated for enforcement.

On the $303.5 million for health care, the GAO said the IRS will “continue the development of new systems and modifications of existing systems required to support new tax credits,” as well as other IRS enforcement systems for health reform.

And that’s where the health reform law gets really tricky for taxpayers....

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and, there is a brand new "privacy" issue too !

Nina E. Olson, who runs the Taxpayer Advocate Office [TAO], a federal IRS overseer, has warned the new health law may require more IRS intrusions on taxpayer privacy, to determine whether individuals got appropriate health coverage, and whether small businesses provide “affordable” coverage, all of which is defined by the government.

Please read the entire long winded story !


Do you think somebody will ask for a "severability clause" ?


Whoops !

Another Boondoggle !

IRS equals gestapo. Nope, if this passes...no more tax dollars from me. They can drag my happy ass to court, stick me in line behind the millions of other people clogging up the courts with this boondoggle of a nightmare.

Des

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The IRS’ main job under the new law isn’t to enforce penalties. Its first task is to inform many small-business owners of a new tax credit that the new law grants them — starting this year — which will pay up to 35 percent of the employer’s contribution toward their workers’ health insurance. And in 2014 the IRS will also be administering additional subsidies — in the form of refundable tax credits — to help millions of low- and middle-income individuals buy health insurance.

The law does make individuals subject to a tax, starting in 2014, if they fail to obtain health insurance coverage. But IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testified before a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee March 25 that the IRS won’t be auditing individuals to certify that they have obtained health insurance. He said insurance companies will issue forms certifying that individuals have coverage that meets the federal mandate, similar to a form that lenders use to verify the amount of interest someone has paid on their home mortgage. "We expect to get a simple form, that we won’t look behind, that says this person has acceptable health coverage," Shulman said. "So there’s not going to be any discussions about health coverage with an IRS employee." In any case, the bill signed into law (on page 131) specifically prohibits the IRS from using the liens and levies commonly used to collect money owed by delinquent taxpayers, and rules out any criminal penalties for individuals who refuse to pay the tax or those who don’t obtain coverage. That doesn’t leave a lot for IRS enforcers to do.

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Interesting.

But does that make the IRS expense requests any different ?

So it's a bunch of temp jobs to make phone calls for a year or two?

Possibly even just two months if the SCOTUS kills the bill.

Sucks to have that job. Interns and 16 year olds working after school I guess.

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How is it that working class people continue to put up with this sh*t?

Between the enormous entitlement system and government bureaucracy, America will soon just be a giant totalitarian autocracy.

Everyone needs to stop paying into the system. Stop paying your taxes. Civil disobedience on a mass scale. Quit your jobs for a month. Shut down the whole f*cking system.

Originally posted by gladtobehere
reply to post by xuenchen

 

How is it that working class people continue to put up with this sh*t?

Between the enormous entitlement system and government bureaucracy, America will soon just be a giant totalitarian autocracy.

Everyone needs to stop paying into the system. Stop paying your taxes. Civil disobedience on a mass scale. Quit your jobs for a month. Shut down the whole f*cking system.

I'm sure many will agree with you !!

The professional con artists have infiltrated the governments.

They keep fumblefutzing around and somehow find new ways to steal the money.

Most of them are well cloaked as "advisers", "consultants", "CONtractors", etc.

The real clever ones are deeply hidden.

Some of the most highly educated people are responsible for some the
biggest boondoggles and government level con games in history.