Federal Agency: IRS Failed To Calculate Obamacare Paperwork Burden on Small Businesses
The federal government’s small-business advocate is taking aim at the healthcare reform law’s insurance mandates.
The Office of Advocacy, an independent agency within the Small Business Administration, is calling out the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for failing to conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis in the crafting of the rules. The analysis is required under a 32-year-old law called the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires that agencies spell out how their regulation will impact small businesses in both hours and dollars.
That requirement, which was strengthened by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 1995, has not been followed in the rule-making process for the mandate for employers to provide insurance, according to Winslow Sargeant, the chief counsel for the advocacy office.
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The hits just keep on comin'
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Irony: The head of The Office of Advocacy was a recess appointment by Barack Obama.
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Squirrels ate my question:
Was the appointment made during a real recess, or was this just one more power-grab by Obozo I? -
I can't find any reference to it in the faux-appointment information (such as the actual court papers), so I assume it's one of the legit ones. Still pretty funny.
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Sargent was appointed in 2009, so he's definitely not involved in that fiasco.
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Still pretty funny.
Hoist by his own retard! -
If you have ever dealt with the refuse that work at the IRS, then you know this is par for the course.