“If I were the IRS, I would be very concerned that I’m going to be viewed as the villain when people have to pay back money the government gave them for health insurance,” said Chris Condeluci, who was Senate Finance Committee GOP tax counsel during drafting of the Affordable Care Act.
There is time. Potential “repayments” to the government will not come due until 2015, when recipients file next year’s taxes. But the new rule for reporting these life changes begins this January.
But there might be good news: If a recipient’s income were to fall and it wasn’t reported, the recipient could get a nice, fat check because he or she would be owed a larger Obamacare tax credit than was received.
Right now, the IRS does explain the issue on its website, but consumers would have to be looking for the information to find it.
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