Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS

Americans for Tax Reforms – by John Kartch

When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form.

The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.  

As confirmed by IRS testimony to the tax-writing House Committee on Ways and Means, “taxpayers will file their tax returns reporting their health insurance coverage, and/or making a payment”.

So why will the Obama IRS require your personal identifying health information?

Simply put, there is no way for the IRS to enforce Obamacare’s individual mandate without such an invasive reporting scheme.  Every January, health insurance companies across America will send out tax documents to each insured individual.  This tax document—a copy of which will be furnished to the IRS—must contain sufficient information for taxpayers to prove that they purchased qualifying health insurance under Obamacare.

This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.”

This will involve millions of new tax documents landing in mailboxes across America every January, along with the usual raft of W-2s, 1099s, and 1098s.  At tax time, the 140 million families who file a tax return will have to get acquainted with a brand new tax filing form.  Six million of these families will end up paying Obamacare’s individual mandate non-compliance tax penalty.

As a service to the public, Americans for Tax Reform has released a projected version of this tax form to help families and tax specialists prepare for this additional filing requirement. Taxpayers may view the projected IRS form at www.ObamacareTaxForm.com.  On the form, lines 3-4 show where taxpayers will disclose their personal health ID information.

View PDF here.

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4 thoughts on “Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS

    1. Yep Michael … that’s the plan of the health insurance industry meglomania, psychopaths and all those who support this sick piece of legislation.

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  1. Hence why I am glad I quit filing tax returns years ago. There is absolutely no law that forces anyone to file a tax return IF they are owed money. Funny how the government/IRS quickly ‘loses’ information when it’s them who owes money yet has an amazing memory when you ‘owe’ them money.

  2. IMAGINE THE ICE BEING TWO HUNDRED FEET THICK IN HELL,thats when they get anything from me,IRS belongs to the QUEEN OF ENGLAND,and that ugly old whore ain’t getting nothing from me……………………………..

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