IRS Warns Employers: Do Not Try to Avoid ObamaCare Insurance Mandate

Cybercast News Service ^ | January 10, 2013 | Matt Cover

[Olog-hai]

The Internal Revenue Service warned employers in a new regulatory proposal not to come up with clever schemes to avoid Obamacare’s employer health insurance mandate.

The IRS said it would soon issue “anti-abuse rules” to discourage employers from taking advantage of any regulatory loopholes.

“The Treasury Department and the IRS are aware of various structures being considered under which employers might use temporary staffing agencies (or other staffing agencies)… to evade application of section 4980H [the employer insurance mandate],” the IRS said in a proposed regulatory announcement issued December 28. …

[Olog-hai]

This keeps up, there will soon be no employers to warn.

[skeeter]

“Ve have vays of makink you talk”

[Doogle]

[Steely Tom]

And you can just forget about driving at 64 mph as well; that will only attract our suspicion.

[laweeks]

Anyone question now why the idiot in our White House has recently armed all federal agents with an enormous amounts of weapons and ammo? Has anyone now any questions as to why they needed all those weapons and ammunition?

They know there’ll be some big problems pretty soon with the citizens of this country.

This is far beyond a conspiracy.

[alancarp]

...employers might use temporary staffing agencies...

Huh! Thanks for the tip! Of course there might be a bunch of these agencies that have 49 employees apiece...

[cripplecreek]

[Don Corleone]

The Internal Revenue Service warned employers in a new regulatory proposal

Another division of Obama's "Brown Shirts" Seig Heil!!

[yldstrk]

hey they told us in school this exact sentence “tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is legal”, so is the IRS putting the kabosh on tax planning?

[JRandomFreeper]

People need to start turning it around. "Nice government agency you have here. Be a shame if anything happened to it"

/johnny

[dfwgator]

Directive 10-289

[Cheerio]

When in America did it become a "LOOPHOLE" to legally avoid paying more of your hard earned money to the Government?

The media is our number ONE enemy.

[Scrambler Bob]

You mean they left a ‘loophole’ in their obambacare law?

[apillar]

Lol! If stopping the use of tax loopholes was really this easy, why haven't they just issued one of these "anti loophole" edicts across the board?

Answer: They are just blowing smoke and trying to scare companies into compliance. If a creative tax accountant uses a loophole, then the IRS has the option to challenge it on a case by case basis in court.

[Olog-hai]

I guess they had to pass the law to see where the loopholes were in it.

[circlecity]

Thus, you can forget the specific words of the statute, it says whatever the IRS says it says.

[RFEngineer]

“IRS Warns Employers: Do Not Try to Avoid ObamaCare Insurance Mandate”

Addendum: “Do not even THINK about trying to avoid the ObamaCare Insurance Mandate”

Addendum: “We will tell you what ‘avoid’ and ‘try’ means

[Durbin]

Right, so there is no choice, as Obama promised.

[FatherofFive]

Similarly, IRS said that if an employer hires the same person for two part-time stints by using two different employment agencies, it will hold either the employer or one of the employment agencies liable for the mandate’s penalties.

And the government beast continues to grow, and kill productive jobs.

[liberalh8ter]

Perhaps it’s time to change the name of the IRS. In the spirit of Dear Leader’s awesome transparent administration, I’m thinking something along the lines of ‘House of Overlords’ or HOs (for short) might be appropriate.