Posts Tagged ‘health care reform’

Tax Help News: How Your Taxes and W-2 will Be Affected by New Health Care Law

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I got an interesting email recently regarding the new health care law (see below for full email message) . The email FALSELY claims that the new legislation would require workers to pay income tax on the value of employer-provided health insurance. This is simply not the case.
It’s true that the value of employer-paid health insurance will be added to employees’ W-2 forms for information purposes, however, contrary to this
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Tanning Tax: Proposed 10% Tax on Tanning Salons Would Raise $2.7 Billion for Health Care Reform

Monday, December 21st, 2009

The latest from Washington is that patrons of tanning salons will be hit with a 10% tanning tax – raising an estimated $2.7 billion over 10 years to pay for health care reform. While this replaces the proposed 5% “BoTax” on plastic surgery providers, we know this won’t be the last we’ll hear from the IRS.
President Obama is optimistic about the passage of the Health Care Bill, which is set
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