Obamacare’s Revenge: The IRS Will Not Process Your Tax Return Unless You Tell Them Whether You Have Health Insurance Or Not

By Michael Snyder
Yes, this is a true story.  I was completely shocked when I learned about this too, and this just underscores the importance of repealing the individual mandate immediately.  Shortly after taking office, President Trump issued an executive order which was intended to move the IRS away from enforcing Obamacare’s individual mandate, but now the IRS has found a way around that executive order.  According to the official AARP website, the IRS has announced that it will not process any tax returns from individuals that are not willing to disclose whether they currently have health insurance or not…

The Internal Revenue Service won’t process individual tax returns in 2018 unless taxpayers indicate whether they have health insurance coverage or an exemption.
The move, announced last month, reverses course from this year, when the IRS said it would not require filers to indicate on 1040 tax forms whether they had health insurance. Filers were still required to have medical insurance or pay a penalty, but the IRS accepted and processed returns even if taxpayers didn’t indicate coverage status.

So what this means is that you will not get your refund until you tell the IRS if you have health insurance.
And if you don’t have health insurance and you don’t qualify for an exemption, you could be hit with a very painful financial penalty.
Of course purchasing health insurance in some parts of the country is enough of a penalty as it is.  For example, I recently wrote about a family of four in Virginia that is now facing the prospect of paying $3,000 a month for health insurance.
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.
And it also turns out that the IRS is going back and sending threatening letters to those that didn’t indicate if they were covered or not on previous tax returns.  Here is more from the AARP

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IRS spokesman Bruce Friedland said it followed a review of IRS procedures.
“The IRS has determined that ?it is more burdensome for taxpayers to allow them to file an incomplete tax return and then have to manage follow-up letters and potentially amend their return,’’ Friedland said. “Identifying omissions and requiring taxpayers to provide health coverage information at the point of filing makes it easier for the taxpayer to successfully file a tax return and minimizes related refund delays.”
In September, the IRS started sending letters to about 130,000 taxpayers who didn’t address the health care requirement on 2014 and 2015 tax returns.

So if you left that section of your tax return blank in previous years, you should be expecting a letter in the mail very soon.
At this point, many of you that are reading this article are probably starting to get very angry.  After all, didn’t President Trump sign an executive order earlier this year that was going to end enforcement of the individual mandate?
Unfortunately, that was not the case at all.  In fact, Politico is reporting that the Trump administration “is still dutifully enforcing Obamacare’s individual mandate”…

The Trump administration is still dutifully enforcing Obamacare’s individual mandate, despite early signals it might undermine the unpopular linchpin of the health care law.
Weeks after the close of tax season, the IRS continues to process penalties from potentially millions of taxpayers who refused to purchase health insurance last year.
That’s even though hours after taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued a vaguely worded executive order instructing federal agencies to waive or defer parts of Obamacare that would “impose a fiscal burden” on states, individuals or health care providers.

Enough is enough.
Obamacare should have been repealed on the very first day of the Trump administration, but unfortunately the RINOs in Congress are going to keep blocking any effort to do that.  Elections really matter, and in 2018 we need to kick out the RINOs and put in new leaders that are fully committed to a 100% repeal of Obamacare.
We also need to do something about the IRS.  They have always been a rogue agency, but now they have gotten completely and totally out of control.  I am running for Congress in Idaho’s first congressional district, and I believe that we should completely shut down the IRS.
The status quo is simply not acceptable.  Obamacare is financially crippling families all across America, and we should be absolutely disgusted that Congress has not found a solution to this problem even though they have had almost an entire year to get something done.

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8 thoughts on “Obamacare’s Revenge: The IRS Will Not Process Your Tax Return Unless You Tell Them Whether You Have Health Insurance Or Not”

  1. If Lying/Traitor McCain had kept his promise about repealing Obamacare, it would be gone. I guess it’s too much to ask of politicians to keep their word after “winning” office. The bitches and whores.

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    • McCain, traitor that he is, was just the “straw man” so to speak. If he hadn’t done that, someone else would have, And since when has a politician kept his word after winning office? Last one to do this was JFK–and look where that got him!

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  2. The ir s is a Puerto Rico Trust and a division of the IMF with no constitutional authority to tax anyone let alone sovereigns who have thru constructive fraud been conned into thinking their legal fiction owns the ir s anything.
    Some interesting information.
    The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency.
    It is an Agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al.
    CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg.
    5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)
    The IMF is an Agency of the UN. (Blacks
    Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg. 816)
    The U.S. Has not had a Treasury since
    1921. (41 Stat. Ch.214 pg. 654)
    The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF.
    (Presidential Documents Volume 29-No.4 pg.113, 22 U.S.C. 285-288)
    “100 percent of what is collected [in income tax] is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt . . . . In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers
    expect from their Government.” J. Peter Grace, “President’s Private Sector
    Survey on Cost Control: A Report to the President,” dated and approved January
    12 and 15, 1984, p. 3.
    All collections of income
    tax paid to the private Federal Reserve are retired from circulation the same
    way they are created by banks in the so-called loan process—by computer-keypad
    keystroke, in exchange for the borrower’s promise-to-pay; to wit:
    The purpose of income tax is
    to remove from circulation a substantial portion of the digits of credit
    “loaned” into circulation by banks by bookkeeping entry in the so-called loan
    process.
    Unless a significant amount
    of the digits “loaned” into circulation by the banks are collected by the IRS
    in the form of FRNs from (1) payments of income tax, (2) seizure and sale of
    real and personal property, and (3) seizure of bank accounts and paychecks and
    thereafter gifted or bequeathed (31
    U.S.C. 321(d)(1) and (2)) to a non-U.S. Government employee and
    proxy / agent of the private Federal Reserve, i.e., the Secretary of the
    Treasury,[19] for transmittal to the private Federal
    Reserve as payments of interest on the national debt and thereupon retired from
    circulation, inflation skyrockets, prices go through the roof, and the
    fraudulent nature of the fractional-reserve banking system of the private
    Federal Reserve can be concealed no longer.[20]

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  3. Form 8965 is easy to fill out, and one exemption, A–“you only pay the penalty if the cost of a Bronze plan on the Market place is less than 8.13 percent of monthly income”–which I daresay would apply to most who lack health care coverage. Or, if you are Christian, join a Healthshare Ministry (MediShare of LibertyHealthshare….the ministry must have been set up before 1999)–exemption D.
    It’ll get to the point where either no one will be able to afford ObamaCare, or no one will have to pay the penalty! The problem is this: too damned many people truly believe the old slogan, “You don’t mess with the IRS” while they allow the IRS to mess with them. And here is another problem: MOST AMERICANS CAN NOT DO THE MATH to get the exemption A anyway!

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  4. No one has any intention of getting rid of Obamacare. Those who say otherwise are only paying lip service. It was drawn up by the deep state years ago and they thought we would all just forget about it and suck it up by now. They are all sitting there wondering what went wrong and trying to come up with new ways to force it down our throats and get us to just shut up about it and give all our money to big pharma like we’re supposed to.

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    • Has anyone noticed that the narrative has changed from whether or not we will have government mandated health care
      to what flavor of government mandated health care we will be forced to swallow?

      Reply

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