What Marketplace? :: By: Larry Walker II :: “Putting thoughts into words is vastly different from putting truth into words. For words are not truth. As ardently as writers sort and select and polish their words, at the end of the day they are still words. They are not, in themselves, truth…” ~ Lionel Fisher … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part IV
Paying Your Fair Share :: By: Larry Walker II :: In Tax Simplification, Part II, I expounded on a 2010 Annual Report to Congress, in which National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson focused on the need for tax reform as the No. 1 priority in tax administration. In particular, she focused on the problem of … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part III
Effing the Middle Class :: By: Larry Walker II :: In Part 1, we voiced concern that in constitutional law sense, an excise tax is usually an event tax as opposed to a “state of being” tax, the recent exception to this principle being the “minimum essential coverage” tax under Internal Revenue Code section 5000A … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part II
What the Individual Mandate means for you and your family :: By: Larry Walker II :: Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2014, State governments, insurers, employers, and selected individuals are supposed to share in the responsibility of providing health insurance coverage. The Act’s shared responsibility provision, also known as the individual mandate, requires … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part I
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