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New Rules About Forms 1099 Are Causing a Stir

6 May 2010

This week, the internet is abuzz about a provision included in The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act that expands reporting requirements related to forms 1099. As per usual, there’s some good information out there and some bad… Let’s see if we can’t sift through it. The [...]

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IRS Issues More Info on Health Care Bill

29 April 2010

For months now, both sides have been firing shots in the health care reform debate. Despite the fact that we now have a signed bill, many of the details are yet to be worked out and that causes concern that the bill will either be overworked or under reaching; my best guess is that it’s [...]

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Money Changes Everything: Health Care in America

22 March 2010

I’ll confess that I got up today with a bit of fear and trepidation. You see, I had been assured by both sides of the health care reform debate that no matter the final tally, the world would end after the health care vote. Remarkably, Earth is still spinning this morning. The health care reform [...]

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Tax Beer? Why? Nothing Helps*

23 February 2010

Beer drinkers in the Mountain State are struggling to raise revenue in a bad economy. Some members of the state’s legislature think they have a solution: tax beer. West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee Chairman Don Perdue, who sponsored the bill, says that an increase in the tax is necessary. His plan to [...]

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Health Care Reform Debate Starts Anew

28 December 2009

The debate about health care reform is starting… again. Here’s why. The Senate passed a bill and the House passed a bill. They have some significant differences to work out. Two of the biggest issues? Paying for the thing and abortion. Neither of those discussions will prove to be an easy task. But for all [...]

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Tanned in the USA

23 December 2009

That collective sigh of relief that you just heard? It was Hollywood, taking comfort in the fact that the cosmetic surgery tax is off the table in the race to pay for health care reform. But don’t start laughing just yet, George Hamilton. It’s been replaced with a 10% tax on tanning services. And yes, [...]

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Plastic Surgery Takes A Tax Hit And Other Ramblings About the Health Care Bill

23 November 2009

Remember this post about taxing plastic surgery? Well, it appears that the Senate, in its effort to tax everything possible to pay for health care reform (you’re right, I’m exaggerating, not everything… health insurance companies will make out okay) is forging ahead with its plan to tax cosmetic surgery. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has introduced [...]

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Health Care Reform and Taxes

10 November 2009

I just received a notice last week from my health insurance provider that rates at my office would be increasing an average of more than 25%. It’s not unexpected. Apparently, health insurance is one of the few industries which can regularly raise their prices by double digits each year without retribution. But what is unexpected [...]

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New Health Care Reform Ad Airs

16 October 2009

The proposed excise tax on “Cadillac” health care plans is raising a lot of controversy. Opponents, like Health Care for America Now (HCAN), believe that it might affect middle class Americans and instead, urge increasing the income tax on families making more than $250,000 per year. They’re touting their plan with ads like this one: [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Health Care Reform

9 October 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! This week, health care reform is in the news again, this time with a focus on the proposed excise tax for high-premium insurance plans. The latest proposal for health care reform includes a controversial excise tax for high-premium insurance plans which exceed certain thresholds. Much of the concern, especially [...]

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