Posted on 03/20/2015 12:46:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Obama administration announced Friday that 80,000 corrected tax forms for people on plans through ObamaCare have still not gone out.
It's unclear how many people will be affected by the delay, but the administration said people who have not received the corrected forms do not have to wait to file their taxes and will not have to pay any additional tax due to the effort.
The issues stem from the announcement last month that 800,000 people on insurance plans through ObamaCare received incorrect tax information. At the time, the administration said forms with corrected information would be sent out in the first week of March.
Republicans pounced on the news, arguing it showed the burdens the Affordable Care Act is placing on families during tax season. They also said it showed the administration was having trouble administering its own law.
The administration now says 740,000 of the corrected forms are in the mail and available online at HealthCare.gov accounts.
It said the remaining 80,000 forms will be mailed next week.
The White House has said the error could result in some people receiving a tax credit meant to subsidize health insurance coverage by mistake.
On Friday, it said people who received the tax credit and had already filed their taxes based on the incorrect forms would not have to refile and could keep the extra tax credit. The administration previously gave this flexibility to 50,000 people who had filed their taxes at the time the original error was announced.
“What we don't know is how many [people] have already filed,” Mark Mazur, assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy, said on a call with reporters. “We think it's a relatively small number.”
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Something like this would be headline MSM news if we had an R POTUS. In this case only folks directly affected and a few FReepers will know about it.
If you like your tax refund, you can keep your tax refund.
In other words, if you like your tax credit, you can keep your tax credit.
What an absolute clusterfork this is! Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!
If you like your tax credit (to which you were not entitled by any law, for which hard-working Americans paid more in taxes so you could receive, for which the 0bama administration is too incompetent to provide correct forms and instructions), you can keep your tax credit.
fluster cluck
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