The IRS and its 46 new powers to enforce ObamaCare

Galen Institute ^ | 6/5/2013 | Galen Institute

[knak]

The power granted to the IRS to enforce ObamaCare’s mandates, taxes, penalties, reporting, and other requirements is unprecedented. Based upon Government Accountability Office data, we count 46 new responsibilities assigned to the IRS under the health law.1

IRS officials have acknowledged the huge problems these major new responsibilities will create for the agency. On March 5, 2013, an official from the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George, testified before the House Appropriations Committee. Mr. George was asked about the tax implications of ObamaCare.

“It is unprecedented in recent history, the amount of responsibility the IRS is being given in an area that most people don’t think of as an IRS function,” George said. Americans, he added, will have more questions about their taxes because of health care penalties or credits, flooding already busy call-in and walk-in tax help centers. “This is going to lead to problems, sir,” he testified.

Many people are especially concerned about assigning an unprecedented number of major new responsibilities to implement ObamaCare to an agency whose primary task is collecting revenues to fund the Federal government.

We have used the GAO list as the basis for our list and have organized it by categories of new tasks: Collecting taxes, distributing subsidies, collecting information, and enforcing compliance.

[Democrat_media]

We need many marches to abolish the IRS and to stop the Amnesty bill.

Obama ordered his IRS to rig the election of 2012 for Obama and democrats/socialists in the Senate. Obama also used other gov agencies to rig the election. Why isn’t anyone shouting this form the rooftops? Come on Levin, coulter , Sarah Palin, Rush, DRudge ,FOX etc. call Obama out on this and call for Obama’s resignation.

Obama’s IRS prevented many tea party groups from getting started The IRS stole the election. We no longer live in a free country

IRS Employee: D.C. Told Us To Target Tea Party

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3026441/posts?page=1

government never works as the IRS scandal shows

government can’t be trusted

but liberals/democrats trust government and love gov

Call Congress to stop the Amnesty bill.

[mosesdapoet]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled The IRS and its 46 new powers to enforce ObamaCare
Responding to my posting informing all of the Bachmann Wednesday June 19th DC House anti “amnesty” protest on capitol grounds
Ann Archy wrote:
Not good enough!! We need a MILLION PATRIOT MARCH!!!!

My tagline applies to this idiotic response

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sounds intriguing.

[Artie]

“Screw their permits”

I am reminded of all of the special waivers. Why have there been no legal challenges to “equal protection under the law”? Where is my waiver? I'll certainly be inconvenienced for the foreseeable future.