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IRS Already Gearing Up for Health-Care Crackdown (more IRS intrusions on taxpayer privacy)
Fox Business News ^ | 03/30/2012 | Elizabeth MacDonald

Posted on 03/30/2012 6:37:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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.

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.

That’s because the health-reform law’s individual mandate requires almost all legal residents of the United States to have “adequate” health-care coverage, as determined by the federal government. And it requires businesses of all sizes to provide “affordable” coverage as defined by the federal government.

Health reform’s insurance mandate says if you do not have “adequate” insurance, you’ll have to pay a fine as part of your tax return. If your business doesn’t provide “affordable” coverage, you’ll have to pay a fine to the IRS, too, as part of your tax return filing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; govtabuse; healthcare; irs; obama; obamacare; obamacareirsagents; socialisthealthcare; taxes
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To: SeekAndFind; Man50D; Principled; EternalVigilance; phil_will1; kevkrom; Bigun; PeteB570; FBD; ...

FairTax!

Replace the income tax with the FairTax and abolish the IRS!


21 posted on 03/30/2012 9:04:50 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Army Air Corps; Red Badger
...bad Michael Moore Movie

Isn't that statement redundant?

"Canadian Bacon" is a Michael Moore movie. I found it very funny.

22 posted on 03/30/2012 9:09:36 AM PDT by matt1234 (Bring back the HUAC.)
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To: Taxman

RE: FairTax!

Replace the income tax with the FairTax and abolish the IRS!

________________

Easier said than done. The fact is people LOVE the deductions and other loopholes they can exploit in our tax code. Heck, Herman Caine couldn’t even convince many FReepers to go with his 9-9-9 plan to slowly move towards a fair tax.


23 posted on 03/30/2012 9:22:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: servantboy777
One of the most un-American agencies to have ever been forced upon the citizens of this country.

Homegrown terrorists.

24 posted on 03/30/2012 9:46:47 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Taxman

Does your presidential candidate support the FairTax?


25 posted on 03/30/2012 9:52:29 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can be a Romney Republican or you can be a conservative. You can't be both. Pick one.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And remember in the health care bill it says IRS determines what a reasonable business expense is, not legislation, not tax court. We are screwed.


26 posted on 03/30/2012 9:55:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What happens if Obama just ignores the SCOTUS?


27 posted on 03/30/2012 10:20:34 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: SeekAndFind; Gilbo_3; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The fine is pretty lame but if you already are insured AND they charge you the fine by accident it would add insult to injury,

The IRS already owned us before this so this doesnt shock me.


28 posted on 03/30/2012 10:24:44 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : "I will just make insurance companies give you health care for 'free, What Mandates??' ")
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
If the Rupublicans won’t get rid of this sh*t, we will find a party that will.

From your keyboard to GOD's ears. This has got to be the line in the sand, the last straw, or whatever you want to call it.

29 posted on 03/30/2012 10:32:09 AM PDT by Marathoner (2 goals this year: (1) S##tcan Obamacare; (2) S##tcan Obama)
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To: sickoflibs

A Russian transplant in L.A. told me

” IRS vorse than KGB!!


30 posted on 03/30/2012 10:33:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: All

Rush is talking about this now.


31 posted on 03/30/2012 10:33:49 AM PDT by Marathoner (2 goals this year: (1) S##tcan Obamacare; (2) S##tcan Obama)
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To: thouworm

” Meanwhile, they can do some reorganization in the IRS, and put several thousand agents to use investigating Republican office holders/candidates and conservative media/organizations.”

Already being done....


32 posted on 03/30/2012 10:35:33 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: unixfox

IRS = Homegrown terrorists.

Ded-gummit, why didn’t I think of that. Good one!


33 posted on 03/30/2012 11:14:28 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Taxman; All

“abolish the IRS!”

Of course, we need more CONSERVATIVES elected, in order to do that, so let’s work hard on getting as many CONSERVATIVES elected, as possible, in 2012.


34 posted on 03/30/2012 11:18:15 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I seem to remember that the GOP has control of the appropriations via the House. I bet our GOP stripped out funds for all those IRS agents. (sarc on)


35 posted on 03/30/2012 11:35:54 AM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: SeekAndFind

The Progressive desire for a European economy demands a tax enforcement regime also like Europes.


36 posted on 03/30/2012 11:59:42 AM PDT by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: Sun

We must all be “All in!” in 2012.

Whatever it takes to elect conservatives, we must do!


37 posted on 03/30/2012 6:45:16 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: traditional1
...it's gone too far to un-do. Billions are already spent on Beaurocracy, jobs, computers, etc., etc., to implement Obamacare,...

Ever end up with a 'lemon'? At some point you quit spending money on the darned thing and go get a reliable car.

Pouring money down a gopher hole isn't likely to imporve the result--better to cut our losses and ditch that mess.

38 posted on 03/31/2012 4:02:55 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: SeekAndFind

The entire DC establishment has spent 30 years salivating in anticipation of this bill. They aren’t about to let 9 individuals muck it all up for them.


39 posted on 03/31/2012 4:07:15 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: ctdonath2

The IRS will not begin collecting penalties until spring of 2015 when tax filing for the 2014 tax year, since the mandate doesn’t take effect until the 2014 tax year.

So these extra agents and systems will never exist if the entire law is squashed this June.


40 posted on 04/01/2012 1:43:06 AM PDT by Kellis91789 (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
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