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Deciphering The IRS Tax Code

Apparently, I need a copy of Form 1095-B so as to prove that I've had health insurance coverage for all of tax year 2015 and so as to avoid the ObamaCare fine. To date, I have not yet received any such form from my insurance carrier BlueCross Blue Shield. Some of my friends have received their Form 1095-B, but I have not.

So, I decided to look up the due date online. Here's what I found (bold font in red is my emphasis):

New Due Dates for Filing Forms 1095-B, 1094-B, 1095-C and 1094-C -- 29-DEC-2015

The due dates for the 2015 information reporting requirements under I.R.C. §§ 6055 and 6056, have been extended.

*The due date for furnishing the 2015 Form 1095-B, Health Coverage, was changed from January 31, 2016, to March 31, 2016; and

*The due date for filing with the Service the 2015 Form 1094-B, Transmittal of Health Coverage Information Returns, and the 2015 Form 1095-B, Health Coverage, was changed from February 29, 2016, to May 31, 2016. If filing electronically, the due date was changed from March 31, 2016, to June 30, 2016.

*The due date for furnishing the 2015 Form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage, was changed from January 31, 2016, to March 31, 2016; and

*The due date for filing with the Service the 2015 Form 1094-C, Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns, and the 2015 Form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage, was changed from February 29, 2016, to May 31, 2016. If filing electronically, the due date was changed from March 31, 2016, to June 30, 2016.

As a result of these extensions, individuals might not receive a Form 1095-B or Form 1095-C by the time they file their 2015 tax returns. For further guidance, please see Notice 2016-04.
Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 30-Dec-2015

Wrap your mind around all that verbiage! Are the people who write the IRS tax code paid by the word?

 My due date for filing my 2015 tax return in April 15, 2016 — unless filing electronically (I do indeed file electronically), in which case the due date is June 30, 2016 a date well after my tax return is due.

Is this delay going to cost me more to file my tax return because my tax preparer will have to file an amended return?

Amnesty Bonuses

From the Weekly Standard: ‘Amnesty Bonuses’ in Tax Code: Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit: Could cost ‘more than $24,000 to those who receive deferred action’.

Excerpt below the fold (emphases mine).

Bank Account Seizures By The IRS

(Two posts today.  Please scroll down)

On the grounds of suspicion, no crime required.

From Bunkerville (citing the New York Times):

For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.

The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report....

I almost always make deposits of less than $10,000. Furthermore, because of the nature of my small business, I make frequent deposits (mostly checks). I'm probably safe on this one. So far.

Still our government keeps stepping outside the bounds of our Constitution.

How long are WE THE PEOPLE going to submit to creeping tyranny?

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers five links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section)

Links to read:

ONE: IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerner’s Computer Crash

TWO: France: Muslims attack man for eating ham sandwich?

THREE: Here's where $14 billion of taxpayer money for Medicaid went

FOUR: Federal Tax Revenues Set Record Through May; Feds Still Running $436B Deficit

FIVE: Doctors Warn of Looming Health Crisis Due to Flood of Young Illegal Immigrants


Please cast your ballot in the poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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The Spoliation Of Evidence

Must-watch video from June 23, 2014:

IRS's "Lost" Emails

With a hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance:


Reminder from the Articles of Impeachment adopted by House Judiciary Committee on July 27, 1974:

Open Thread

So, what's on your mind?

Here is your chance to vent, but please observe the guidelines listed below the fold.  Also below the fold are my two entries.

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers five links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section)

Links to read:

ONE: [Los Angeles] Man, 79, Beaten After Accidentally Bumping Into Car In Grocery Store Parking Lot

TWO: Obama Admin Can’t Say Why It Took Two Years To Label Boko Haram a Terrorist Organization

THREE: U.S. businesses are being destroyed faster than they’re being created

FOUR: [At the same time stating that there is insufficient funding to serve taxpayers,] Obama’s IRS Spends Nearly $100 Million on Office Furniture

FIVE: Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property

Please cast your ballot in the poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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[Nincompoopery will be on hiatus next Saturday in observance of Memorial Day weekend]

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers five links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section)

Links to read:

ONE: NBC News Scrubs Any Mention of “Islam” And “Muslim” From Story On Female Genital Mutilation

TWO: Teachers “White Privilege Conference” In Wisconsin: Whites Will Never Be Cured of Their Racism, Like Alcoholics

THREE: IRS awards bonuses to 1,100 [employees] who owe back taxes

FOUR: UN Says Vacuuming CO2 Out of Air May Be Only Way to Save Planet Earth

FIVE: Woman Wears Hijab to experience Discrimination but is Treated like Royalty; concludes people still Racist

Please cast your ballot in the poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Bombshell that Shocks Precisely No One: Pakistanis Knew Osama bin Laden Lived a Few Hundred Yards from Military Academy

It’s clearly now acceptable to study zombies seriously

‘Suffocating pressure’: Former ThinkProgress writer describes White House ‘censorship’

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

IRS’ Lois Lerner Asks To Delay Her Congressional Testimony Because She Fears For Her Life

State Senator in New York Proposes Requiring Parents To Take “Parenting Classes” From Government

OECD: World Tax an Unholy Alliance, Obama Loves It – Requires Global Solution, a Single Global Standard

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Fallujah falls to Al-Qaeda, does anyone care??

News Networks Spend Twice as Much Time on Michelle Obama’s Birthday Bash Than Benghazi

Who Read 1,582-Page $1.1T Spending Bill? Congressman: 'Nobody Did'

The Benghazi Transcripts: Top Defense officials briefed Obama on ‘attack,’ not video or protest

More People Without Health Insurance Than Before Obamacare: Number Cancelled 6,286,357

‘Blow Torch Rapist’ Strikes Again In Detroit

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post somewhat shorter than usual as explained in my post of October 11 and my post of October 18. For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Whopping 932,000 Americans Drop Out Of Labor Force In October; Participation Rate Drops To Fresh 35 Year Low

At fancy St. Regis dinner, Obama tells supporters he never said, 'If you like your plan you can keep it'

Des Moines imam argues sex charges violate religious freedom

Next Big Shoe to Drop: Over 100 Million to Lose Insurance When ObamaCare Exemption to Employers Ends

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post somewhat shorter than usual as explained in my post of October 11 and my post of October 18. For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website

Ohio Mosque Religious School: "if they do not learn their religious passages as they are instructed," they are sometimes "chained to a wall by their wrists and ankles and beaten with a long stick."

TWO MUSLIM SOLDIERS ARRESTED IN MISSOURI ASKING FOR SEXUAL FAVORS AND TRYING TO ABDUCT 12 YEAR OLD GIRL FROM IN FRONT OF HER HOUSE

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post, somewhat shorter than usual as explained in my post of October 11.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Mental health nurse [in Southampton, England] handed a patient a razor blade after patient declared intent for self-harm. The nurse said later that she was trying to turn a negative situation into a positive one

Grocery story owner sues IRS over seizure of $35,000

Obama’s Park Service Removes Handles From Water Fountains In Park Frequented By Joggers And Bikers