{"id":518415,"date":"2010-04-06T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34360"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:01:01","slug":"no-insurance-no-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518415","title":{"rendered":"No Insurance? No Refund."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Shoemaker<\/p>\n

One possible enforcement mechanism the IRS plans to use for the individual health care mandate will be to confiscate your income tax refund. <\/p>\n

From The Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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. [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So when rationally uninsured Americans refuse to comply with the mandate and purchase health care policies it may be comforting to know instead of “freezing your bank accounts, seizing assets or pursuing criminal charges” they’ll just steal<\/strong><\/span> your tax refund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Shoemaker One possible enforcement mechanism the IRS plans to use for the individual health care mandate will be to confiscate your income tax refund.  From The Daily Caller: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}