Posted on 04/05/2010 11:58:32 PM PDT by Blonde
Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging the recently passed health-care bill limits the agency’s options for enforcing the individual mandate, Shulman told reporters that the most likely way to penalize individuals that don’t comply is by reducing or confiscating their tax refunds.
Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, Shulman downplayed the IRS’s role in enforcing the recent overhaul of the health insurance industry by claiming the agency would not aggressively target individuals who don’t purchase coverage. He noted that the health-care bill expressly forbids the agency from freezing bank accounts, seizing assets or pursuing criminal charges, but when pressed said the IRS would most likely use tax refund offsets to penalize those that don’t comply with the mandate. The IRS uses refund offsets to collect from individuals that owe the federal government a delinquent debt.
“These are not the kinds of things we send agents out about,” Shulman said. “These are things where you get a letter from us. Congress was very careful to make sure there was nothing too punitive in this bill.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
And Congress.
....gonna be a long interesting summer
“For the good of the American People!”
The Reign of Tyranny continues.
Excellent! [ Mr Burns schemy fingers ] So only stupid people will pay the penalty. That means only Democrats! The law of unintended consequences strikes again!
Shoving it down our throats whether we like it or not.
I think I will call the administration of Obama:
“The REDistributors”
Yep... time to clam 29 independents on the ole tax form and then request a refund. The IRS is still stupid but a pain in the arse...
That's very good advice, which every FReeper should heed. Effectively, allowing too much withholding is giving the bastards an interest-free loan.
Huh...well then guess I’ll have to make sure I don’t give the .gov the usual short term loan this year.
jerks... only the poor are hurt by this kind of tax refund garbage for no health insurance....
Tax refunds aren't assets owed to the individual?
Wow! I didn’t see THAT coming.
/sarc
This is going to be so much fun. These guys have no idea what they are doing or how they are going to manage this fiasco.
Most of the country is not going to pay either intentionally or just from not understanding the process and the idiots currently running the country will have no clue how to deal with it.
This whole ill conceived, poorly though out, master plan is going to be a national train wreck. It should be hilarious watching the stooges trying to sort it all out on the fly.
~~The lies of this regime are revealed
more every dang day ..........
The pendulum will swing the other way. It always does. And it should be broadcast loud and clear by the right that when that days does come, and it will, that these commie bastards will be criminally prosecuted. Obama, Pelosi... right on down the line to this two-bit scum sucking nazi Doug Shulman.
Not going to happen. Taxpayers will claim many more deductions than they have and will pay the appropriate amount at tax time - screw the IRS. They will lose this game eventually.
Tyranny.
“When in the course of human events....”
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