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False alarm: First responders exempt from Obamacare employer calculations, Treasury says
Washington Times ^ | January 10, 2014 | Tom Howell Jr.

Posted on 01/11/2014 2:05:16 AM PST by Zakeet

The Treasury said Friday it will not count “nominally compensated” volunteer firefighters or emergency medical services personnel as full-time employees when the employer mandate tied to Obamacare takes effect next year.

In a blog post, the department said it reviewed the tax code and concluded it would not be reasonable to count first-responder volunteers against the law’s threshold of 50 employees.

[Snip]

The Treasury made its latest decision after accepting feedback from local fire and EMS departments.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; emt; exemptions; healthcare; obamacare; zerocare

This is only about the 200th time that we've received so much bad feedback that we've been forced to ignore our law.

1 posted on 01/11/2014 2:05:16 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

What a clueless failure of a program and a president. Democrats say, “It’s the law!” but it changes every day as these weasels try to hang on for another election this fall.


2 posted on 01/11/2014 2:20:54 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

I hate to suggest it....but things run better in Bolivia...or at least the last time I checked.

I’d like to suggest that we need to send some journalist off to La Paz, and just him him compare the lifestyle, politics, and day-to-day operations of Bolivia to the US. We might be shocked at the comparison.


3 posted on 01/11/2014 3:02:10 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: txrefugee
An exemption for Volunteer Fire Departments was the right thing to do. But, when will anyone in the press start asking Obama how he makes up the revenue lost by all these exemptions.

I'm still waiting to hear anyone in the news talk about the unions getting their exemption on Thanksgiving eve. It came through a "ruling" by the HHS, under cover of the holidays.

4 posted on 01/11/2014 3:16:33 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT (November can't come soon enough!)
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To: Zakeet

What this means is that the rest of us will have to pay more to compensate.


5 posted on 01/11/2014 3:16:34 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: Zakeet

Government by decree.


6 posted on 01/11/2014 3:37:26 AM PST by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Zakeet

Now we find out about US tax law “In a blog post”? Blog posts have the force of law in court? We really have become a banana republic.


7 posted on 01/11/2014 3:39:14 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT

Nothing to do with DeathCare, but didn’t DOJ sue a woman for using volunteers without pay? IF that suit is upheld, wouldn’t volunteer firemen also be affected?


8 posted on 01/11/2014 3:51:00 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Zakeet

EQUAL... UNLESS WE DECREE OTHERWISE”


9 posted on 01/11/2014 4:08:57 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Zakeet

Obamacare settled law. What law?

“Did you read through every single page, every single paragraph?” There!

Making stuff up as they go.


10 posted on 01/11/2014 4:13:01 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Zakeet
I detest the US government with every fiber of my being. None of the 3 branches of it give a damn about me or my family.

Obamacare cancelled my health insurance, yet, everyone and their brother appears to not have to pay Chief Justice Roberts "tax" this year but me and similarly written off law abiding citizens. How can that tax with "exemptions" pulled out of thin air pass the Equal Protection Clause?

A pox on the Administration, Congress, the Courts and the Media.

11 posted on 01/11/2014 4:34:30 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Lawgvr1955

Yes, there is a special place in H*** for Roberts, et al, who decreed the Government could force us to buy something and ‘tax’ us if we didn’t. Totally UnConstitutional, but hey who cares, right? The Dems are in control and whatever they say at any given moment is the truth, right?


12 posted on 01/11/2014 6:22:34 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue;)
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT

If the departments are volunteer, how can there be any application of Obamacare to the organization?

There are no employees, therefore no compulsion. All the volunteers are under compulsion to carry the insurance as individuals or as employees of companies where they work.

Volunteer fire departments and rescue squads are nonprofit corporations with no employees


13 posted on 01/11/2014 6:29:25 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Zakeet

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”


14 posted on 01/11/2014 6:53:28 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Zakeet

Obamacare couldn’t possibly work as passed by Congress and all these unconstitutional changes to the law are being made to fix problems to a 2000 page bill that no one bothered to read.


15 posted on 01/11/2014 7:19:06 AM PST by The Great RJ
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