By Joseph R. Carducci September 11, 2014 The more you listen to liberals talk, the crazier the seem. Hence, today I bring you an example where the current IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, has indirectly admitted the agency has been put in a position where following the law, at least as far as ObamaCare consequences, is becoming increasingly more difficult. IRS Commish Testifies on Capitol Hill The Commissioner was on Capitol Hill for a House Ways and Means Committee hearing. Interestingly enough, the topic of this specific hearing was the disastrous and expensive ObamaCare rollout. He was asked a question about the number of ineligible people who have been receiving ObamaCare subsidies (and who will likely be forced to pay them back to the IRS). Koskinen said that his agency follows the law “wherever it can.” Gee, that is good to know and very comforting. Of course, this response drew some laughs from those Congressmen attending the hearing. After all, they aren’t bound to keep the law themselves. But just because the IRS only ‘tries’ to follow the law, ‘wherever they can,’ don’t get too excited. This excuse is not likely to work when you or I complete our tax returns or have to go through an audit. Listen to the comment yourself: Improper Subsidies This is not really anything new. It was even reported in the New York Times back in June. They called attention to the fact that hundreds of thousands of people were receiving subsidies improperly (not to mention a huge number of forthcoming cancellations). To make matters even worse, this is largely the fault of the poorly performing ObamaCare website. Yes, the same site that still doesn’t have its back-end functionality built. Once the system is fixed, everyone who incorrectly received such subsidies will be required to pay them back. This is going to be where the IRS comes in, since they will likely be the ones to collect, in the form of taxes owed. According to the New York Times: “Of the eight million people who signed up for private health plans through insurance exchanges under the new healthcare law, two million reported personal information that differed from data in government records, according to federal officials and Serco, the company hired to resolve such inconsistencies. The government is asking consumers for additional documents to verify their income, citizenship, immigration status and Social Security numbers, as well as any health coverage that they may have from employers. People who do not provide the information risk losing their subsidized coverage and may have to repay subsidies next April.” IRS Coming to Collect That is hardly the type of situation our dear community organizer in chief promised us. But I suppose we should all be glad to hear the IRS follows the law on these subsidies as best they can. The IRS will come looking for their money, that you can believe. After all, this is the same agency that has been working together with the DOJ to cover their own arse on the targeting scandal. What do YOU think? Happy to learn the IRS tries their best to follow the law? Even happier to know this excuse will get YOU nowhere in an audit or any type of IRS procedure?
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:16:09 +0000
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