Friday, July 6, 2012

6500 New IRS Agents Needed To Provide Health Care

(RenewAmerica.com) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) executives are witnessing the largest manpower expansion — at least since withholding taxes were first introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II — to enforce the new tax mandates and penalties included in the health care law, according to Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX).

"When most people think of health care reform they think of more doctors exams, not more IRS exams," said Congressman Brady, a top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee. "Isn't the federal government already intruding enough into our lives?

We need thousands of new doctors and nurses in America, not thousands more IRS agents."

According to Brady, a new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee staff estimates up to 6,500 new IRS personnel will be necessary to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Included within the expanded staff is an increase in the number of criminal investigators whose job will be to "make cases" whenever possible in order to increase financial penalties, according to tax lawyer John Kubisty.

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Posted By: Chris Carmouche