IRS to collect health information in 2014

[DrLeftover]

This goes into effect next year

Chairman Boustany, Ranking Member Lewis and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to update you on the IRS’ staged implementation of the tax law changes contained in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Whenever Congress passes changes to the tax law, the IRS must take the necessary steps to educate and communicate with taxpayers about the changes, update relevant forms and publications, change or re-program its information technology systems, and implement appropriate programs to sustain high levels of compliance with the new provisions. The
ACA is no exception.

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/miller_testimony_os911.pdf


more:
http://www.atr.org/obamacare-taxpayers-must-report-personal-health-a7611

 

[DrLeftover]

Of course having THIS agency:

The Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to "make America a better place to live," according to new details of a government probe.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578478851998004528.html

Do The above is a good idea.

 

[DrLeftover]

And it is getting worse:

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/Progressive-Group-Says-IRS-Gave-Them-Confidential-Docs-On-Conservative-Groups

 

[DrLeftover]

And another shoe....

The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.

Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family’s international humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a “review” of their activities for tax year 2010.

With the IRS admitting it gave extra scrutiny to conservative political organizations, Graham says he now believes that the review was part of an Obama administration effort of “targeting and attempting to intimidate us.”

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association urging of voters to back “candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel” during last year’s presidential race was the reason why IRS agents visited the North Carolina offices of both Graham groups, the letter accuses.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html

 

[DrLeftover]

And from the USA Today, a certified Non-Disgusting Non-Hating paper

WASHINGTON -- In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.

That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn't be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.

In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications from similar liberal and progressive groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/14/irs-tea-party-progressive-groups/2158831/

 

[DrLeftover]

News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright get out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney.

“Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won the dismissal of an IRS case against United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's denomination,” The American Lawyer’s Zach Lowe wrote on May 22, 2008.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/19/Chief-IRS-counsel-bailed-Jeremiah-Wright-s-church-out-of-IRS-probe-in-2008

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Just responding to the topic title,

If I have health insurance, will I get some sort of tax break according to the new laws?

 

[DrLeftover]

Just responding to the topic title,

If I have health insurance, will I get some sort of tax break according to the new laws?

From what I've seen, if you have health insurance and pay taxes, your rates on both will only increase slightly.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Just responding to the topic title,

If I have health insurance, will I get some sort of tax break according to the new laws?

From what I've seen, if you have health insurance and pay taxes, your rates on both will only increase slightly.

slightly is still an increase.

 

[DrLeftover]

And you expected... what?

 

[Evil Eye]

They aint collecting any of my health information...

They know where you live

 

[DrLeftover]

I know where they live too...

"Hey, Freez... there's some guys here to see you."