I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure

By REED ABELSON OCT. 20, 2017

Despite President Trump’s pronouncements, not only is Obamacare not dead, there are signs that his administration is keeping it alive.

In the latest signal that the Affordable Care Act is still law, the Internal Revenue Service said this week that it is taking steps to enforce the most controversial provision: the tax penalty people face if they refuse to obtain health insurance.

Next year, for the first time, the I.R.S. will reject your tax return when filed electronically if you do not complete the information required about whether you have coverage, including whether you are exempt from the so-called individual mandate or will pay the penalty. If you file your tax return on paper, the agency said it could suspend processing of the return and delay any refund you might be owed.

The agency’s new guidance for tax professionals seems to contradict Mr. Trump’s first executive order, on Inauguration Day, which broadly instructed various agencies to scale back the regulatory reach of the federal health care law.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/health/irs-obamacare-mandate.html

[Bradshaw3]

1. I knew this would happen: a double screwing

The reupbs and drump sabotage the system to cause rates t go up, coverage to go down then keep the penalty so people like me don't have an option. I have to keep higher cost healthcare and pay the tax on it.

[christx30]

2. Looks like they are trying to get mass objections to ACA.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln

[yallerdawg]

3. We paid that penalty a couple years ago.

It's the law!

I'd be more shocked to know people didn't pay it!

[Jim Beard]

4. My son didn't this year but it was a matter of survival for him, not protest.

His 8 year old son is autistic and goes to school 10 hours a day He goes to public school for 4 hours and then from 1-6pm , he goes to a private school especially for autistic children, they have to pay the deductible which is $500 a month. The state of Texas does nothing for his autism now. We have to pay any extra premiums and expenses come out of their pockets.

They have checked every thing possible so my son got a high deductible low premium policy for him and they are going to get him but that boy is doing so good with the special training
can and they may lose that. This is Texas, home and capitol of the Bubbas.