Obamacare

Do Low-Income Taxpayers Cheat?

My blog last Tuesday on overblown concerns about people falsely claiming subsides under the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges generated a lot of response. Much...

July 18, 2013Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Will Obamacare Delays Encourage Health Exchange Cheating?

The latest flap over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act involves the ability of the IRS to verify the income people use to calculate...

July 16, 2013Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Not to Fix the IRS

House Republicans have decided to make the IRS their summer piñata. Its leadership says it will bring a series of anti-IRS proposals to the floor...

July 11, 2013Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Much Will 2013’s Payroll Tax Hikes Cut Your Take-Home Pay?

2013 is a tough year if you owe payroll tax, as most of us do. Not only did the 2010 payroll tax cut die at...

April 5, 2013Roberton C. Williams

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Build America Bonds, the Medicaid Expansion, and Trust Between the States and the Feds

States trying to decide whether to expand their Medicaid programs to cover more low-income uninsured might want to take a look at the fate of...

March 7, 2013Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Will Enough People Enroll in Obamacare?

Earlier this week, I concluded that the Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who do not have health insurance will be both modest and difficult...

July 5, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

There is No Health Care Tax on Most Home Sales. Really.

It is the unfounded rumor that never dies: You will have to pay a 3.8 percent federal health care tax on the sale of your...

April 2, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Taxes, Health Reform, and the Supreme Court

There is more to the Affordable Care Act than the individual mandate. There are also, for example, taxes. And since this is TaxVox, I thought...

March 29, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

A Medicare Reform Plan That Just Might Work

On a day when Washington partisans couldn’t even figure out (yet again) how to keep the government running, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Budget...

December 15, 2011Howard Gleckman