{"id":20504,"date":"2014-04-11T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20504"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:10:54","slug":"irs%e2%80%99s-big-brother-obamacare-enforcement-coming-into-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20504\/irs%e2%80%99s-big-brother-obamacare-enforcement-coming-into-view\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS\u2019s &#8216;Big Brother&#8217; ObamaCare Enforcement Coming into View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tax Day approaches, consider the bright side \u2013 at least there\u2019s no ObamaCare form you have to fill out.<\/p>\n<p>That changes next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the agency, the IRS plans to include a specific line on the 1040 forms for taxpayers to \u2018self-attest\u2019 whether they purchased insurance,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/04\/10\/irs-obamacare-enforce\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cIt will most likely include a worksheet for taxpayers to calculate how much they owe \u2013 essentially either a flat penalty or a percentage of their income.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next year the penalty is either $95 or 1 percent of your income, whichever is greater.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS plans to confirm whether taxpayers are telling the truth about purchasing insurance by getting enrollment records from insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>So along with increased paperwork, we can all look forward to a greater amount of government surveillance into our insurance (and eventually our health) records.<\/p>\n<p>All in the name of helping us. Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Brother_%28Nineteen_Eighty-Four%29\" target=\"_blank\">Big Brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tax Day approaches, consider the bright side \u2013 at least there\u2019s no ObamaCare form you have to fill out. That changes next year. \u201cAccording to the agency, the IRS plans to include a specific line on the 1040 forms for taxpayers to \u2018self-attest\u2019 whether they purchased insurance,\u201d reports Fox News. \u201cIt will most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242,3308,1829,735,1009,35,3005],"class_list":["post-20504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-brother","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-irs","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-penalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20514,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20504\/revisions\/20514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}