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Health care law's massive, hidden tax change

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Really, nice going guys! Bastards will tax us to death. Discuss.

Health care law's hidden tax change to launch 1099 avalanche - May. 5, 2010

An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork.

Section 9006 of the health care bill -- just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document -- mandates that beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year.

The stealth change radically alters the nature of 1099s and means businesses will have to issue millions of new tax documents each year.

Right now, the IRS Form 1099 is used to document income for individual workers other than wages and salaries. Freelancers receive them each year from their clients, and businesses issue them to the independent contractors they hire.

But under the new rules, if a freelance designer buys a new iMac from the Apple Store, they'll have to send Apple a 1099. A laundromat that buys soap each week from a local distributor will have to send the supplier a 1099 at the end of the year tallying up their purchases.

The bill makes two key changes to how 1099s are used. First, it expands their scope by using them to track payments not only for services but also for tangible goods. Plus, it requires that 1099s be issued not just to individuals, but also to corporations.

Taken together, the two seemingly small changes will require millions of additional forms to be sent out.

"It's a pretty heavy administrative burden," particularly for small businesses without large in-house accounting staffs, says Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

Eliminating the goods exemption could launch an avalanche of paperwork, he says: "If you cater a lunch for other businesses every Wednesday, say, that's a lot of information to keep track of throughout the year."
 
Many lefties have a self loathing issue that is projected to an ambivalence towards American greatness. THis is acted out in policies designed to hamstring America.
 
Really, nice going guys! Bastards will tax us to death. Discuss.

Health care law's hidden tax change to launch 1099 avalanche - May. 5, 2010

This is nothing.
It's only the beginning.
Just imagine all the avenues this beast opens. And they all lead to you, your liberty, and your property.

Can I call all of you Ward?
Of the state.

If this idiocy isn't repealed, just wait until you get the numbnuts screwing with this thing year after year.

Like the income tax... it will explode into a national mushroom cloud.

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and again, we see that Democratic Corporatists are willing to use their revenue collection power to favor their big business buddies over the market.


sucks to be you, small business. the cost of entry to the market is jacked way up again.
 
What do you expect from Progressives? They MUST control our lives. Without full positive control, we might do the wrong thing.

This is just that mentatlity writ large.

Dear Lord, please don't let the GOP lose their spine and back away from full repeal... (and no Romney in 2012 pls).
 
Your headline, which does not match the stories headline, is misleading. It's not a new tax, it's a change in the paperwork.

Yeah, it's just paperwork.

That doesn't require more spending and wasted man hours by businesses. That's the hidden tax, and it's 100% accurate. Your logic is what's inaccurate.
 
Many lefties have a self loathing issue that is projected to an ambivalence towards American greatness. THis is acted out in policies designed to hamstring America.

Many righties have an exaggerated rhetoric problem which makes it impossible to have a reasoned conversation with them. They also have a problem with rational thought, thinking any one who disagrees with them is somehow out to hurt America.
 
Yeah, it's just paperwork.

That doesn't require more spending and wasted man hours by businesses. That's the hidden tax, and it's 100% accurate. Your logic is what's inaccurate.

No, it's not a tax. It may be a cost, but it is not a tax. I suggest checking out the definition of the word tax before posting such foolishness.
 
Are you people surprised? Nothing that the government touches has a good outcome.


Dear Lord, please don't let the GOP lose their spine and back away from full repeal... (and no Romney in 2012 pls).

HA! The Republicans have no spine, all they do is talk, they just as full of **** and lies as Democrats.
 
No, it's not a tax. It may be a cost, but it is not a tax. I suggest checking out the definition of the word tax before posting such foolishness.

Tax CHANGE.

Try learning to read.
 
Are you people surprised? Nothing that the government touches has a good outcome.




HA! The Republicans have no spine, all they do is talk, they just as full of **** and lies as Democrats.

Yeah well, their our only hope in the next 2 years of reversing this. So instead of wasting everyones time with whining about how imperfect they are and throwing your vote to a third party that will ensure nothing changes...

I'll be spending my time and money voting for those Candidates within the GOP that WILL make a difference.
 
Your headline, which does not match the stories headline, is misleading. It's not a new tax, it's a change in the paperwork.

Did you click the link and read the article? My headline does match the stories' headline. And the headline is accurate, the change is for tax reasons, although there are no new taxes.

You do not want to pick a fight with me on this.
 
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haha this proves why all you conservatives shouldn't have been complaining about the bill, you had no idea what is in it! For all you know there is a section that says "give everyone a million dollars". So stop complaining because you have no idea what is in this bill.
 
haha this proves why all you conservatives shouldn't have been complaining about the bill, you had no idea what is in it! For all you know there is a section that says "give everyone a million dollars". So stop complaining because you have no idea what is in this bill.

So you've read the bill from start to finish?
 
Tax CHANGE.

Try learning to read.

OP remarked about "tax us to death" when discussing this. If you can't see how that might be misleading I don't know what to tell you.

More on-topic, this does seem like a large amount of paperwork. The premise is a good one: try and collect taxes on income that small shops aren't reporting. However, this strikes me as using a machete to remove a splinter.
 
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For all you know there is a section that says "give everyone a million dollars"

oh, brother

half a T cuts to m&m while simulataneously expanding massively both already overstrained entitlements:

Capitol Briefing - Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts

the double counting of another quarter T:

Budget Office Rebuts Democratic Claims on Medicare (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

secret deal with phrma:

Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma

seiu's exemption from the cadillac:

Unions nab sweetheart health-care deal - NYPOST.com

buy insurance or else:

Buy Insurance or Go to Jail? - The Note

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Barthold_letter.pdf

good enough for starters

seeya in november

and december, january...
 
oh, brother

half a T cuts to m&m while simulataneously expanding massively both already overstrained entitlements:

Capitol Briefing - Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts

the double counting of another quarter T:

Budget Office Rebuts Democratic Claims on Medicare (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

secret deal with phrma:

Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma

seiu's exemption from the cadillac:

Unions nab sweetheart health-care deal - NYPOST.com

buy insurance or else:

Buy Insurance or Go to Jail? - The Note

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Barthold_letter.pdf

good enough for starters

seeya in november

and december, january...

Why would you quote me and then post something irrelevant to my post?
 
Your headline, which does not match the stories headline, is misleading. It's not a new tax, it's a change in the paperwork.

Anytime a 1099 is issued, some one paying taxes on it. More 1099's means more taxes on somebody.
 
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