800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:47AM from the your-tax-dollars-at-work-on-tax-stuff dept.

mpicpp sends this report from the NY Times: About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from congressional Democrats, also announced that it would give several million people more time to buy health insurance so they could comply with federal law and avoid tax penalties. The incorrect insurance information is used in computing taxes. Consumers can expect to receive corrected data in the first week of March. With the new data, officials warned, some taxpayers will owe more and some will owe less. Officials said they did not know why the error had occurred.

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800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data

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