Tax, tax, tax, tax.
Posted on 10/29/2009 10:39:47 AM PDT by Cecilia Trent
From Ryan Ellis on Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:20 PM Add to Reddit Add to Stumbleupon Add to Delicious Add to Digg Add to Facebook Add to Twitter
H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" has been introduced--all 1990 pages of it. This gargantuan beast contains thirteen new tax hikes. Here they all are, with description and page number (PDF version):
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Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a family employee), the employer must pay an excise tax equal to 8 percent of average wages. Small employers (measured by payroll size) have smaller payroll tax rates of 0 percent (<$500,000), 2 percent ($500,000-$585,000), 4 percent ($585,000-$670,000), and 6 percent ($670,000-$750,000).
Individual Mandate Surtax (Page 296): If an individual fails to obtain qualifying coverage, he must pay an income surtax equal to the lesser of 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) or the average premium. MAGI adds back in the foreign earned income exclusion and municipal bond interest.
Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 324): Non-prescription medications would no longer be able to be purchased from health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Insulin excepted.
Cap on FSAs (Page 325): FSAs would face an annual cap of $2500 (currently uncapped).
Increased Additional Tax on Non-Qualified HSA Distributions (Page 326): Non-qualified distributions from HSAs would face an additional tax of 20 percent (current law is 10 percent). This disadvantages HSAs relative to other tax-free accounts (e.g. IRAs, 401(k)s, 529 plans, etc.)
Denial of Tax Deduction for Employer Health Plans Coordinating with Medicare Part D (Page 327): This would further erode private sector participation in delivery of Medicare services.
Surtax on Individuals and Small Businesses (Page 336): Imposes an income surtax of 5.4 percent on MAGI over $500,000 ($1 million married filing jointly). MAGI adds back in the itemized deduction for margin loan interest. This would raise the top marginal tax rate in 2011 from 39.6 percent under current law to 45 percent—a new effective top rate.
Excise Tax on Medical Devices (Page 339): Imposes a new excise tax on medical device manufacturers equal to 2.5 percent of the wholesale price. It excludes retail sales and unspecified medical devices sold to the general public.
Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 344): Requires that 1099-MISC forms be issued to corporations as well as persons for trade or business payments. Current law limits to just persons for small business compliance complexity reasons. Also expands reporting to exchanges of property.
Delay in Worldwide Allocation of Interest (Page 345): Delays for nine years the worldwide allocation of interest, a corporate tax relief provision from the American Jobs Creation Act
Limitation on Tax Treaty Benefits for Certain Payments (Page 346): Increases taxes on U.S. employers with overseas operations looking to avoid double taxation of earnings.
Codification of the “Economic Substance Doctrine” (Page 349): Empowers the IRS to disallow a perfectly legal tax deduction or other tax relief merely because the IRS deems that the motive of the taxpayer was not primarily business-related.
Application of “More Likely Than Not” Rule (Page 357): Publicly-traded partnerships and corporations with annual gross receipts in excess of $100 million have raised standards on penalties. If there is a tax underpayment by these taxpayers, they must be able to prove that the estimated tax paid would have more likely than not been sufficient to cover final tax liability.
Thank goodness they managed to keep the bill under 2,000 pages! (eyeball roll)
Yeah, looks like this one will fly. A real flying Porkulus Pig. Come on...Rats! let’s TAX TAX, Tax.
I’m reading some of this bill right now..OMFG is all I have to say.
What does the Office of Minority and Civil Rights have to do with ANY type of Medical decisions!? COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME!?!?
Whatever happened to the promise: 95% of Americans WILL NOT BE TAXED, Obummer?
Was it the Apollo Alliance again, the same group of communists that wrote the Stimulus Bill?
Holy crap! They just killed our economy and jobs future. The implementation alone, for the Corporate 1099-Misc, is going to cause a bucket load of problems, and expense.
The overseas double tax will cause more than a few multi-Nationals to leave, as well.
Merry Christmas, Khrushchev, Stalin, Putin.
I’m gonna get nailed by the Medicine Cabinet Tax and the Increased Additional Tax on Non-Qualified HSA Distributions.
Possibly the Individual Mandate Surtax because I have the cheapest insurance I can possibly buy as I never go to the hospital. My HSA is there just in case something really bad happens that accident insurance (workman’s comp, auto, home) doesn’t cover.
Is the FSA cap of $2500 for individuals or families?
I hate liberals more and more each day.
This is all about the federal government trying to take over this nation by taking over piece by piece through taxation.
It is time we abolish the federal government and start over.
“Office of Minority and Civil Rights”.........that’ll be the Office that determines who gets the healthcare FREE!!!!!
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If they really wanted to “reform” medical case, they could do it in 20 pages.
The rest, another 1970 pages, is pure pork and benefits for special interests.
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