Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), and Rep. Charles Boustany, MD, (R-La.), sent an official letter to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, asking specific questions about the distribution of funds for enactment of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act to the agency.
HHS, the federal agency charged with oversight of PPACA, is giving the IRS funds to implement a part of the act — so far nearly $200 million has been distributed to the tax agency and $300 million more is expected to funnel from HHS to the IRS in the coming year. The IRS is in charge of several provisions of the federal healthcare act, including the controversial individual mandate, a tax levy on individuals without health insurance beginning in 2014.
Specifically Rep. Boustany — who ran a medical practice in Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to Congress — and Rep. Camp want to know how much the IRS will ultimately need to implement the PPACA, and how many new employees the agency might need to hire.
"Detail the total amount of additional money and new employees the IRS anticipates needing over the next ten years to implement ACA provisions," the congressmen write in their letter.
The legislators conclude the letter by asking: "Does the IRS plan to request funding from HHS above the Administration's own budget request?"
They've asked for a response from the IRS by no later than April 27.
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HHS, the federal agency charged with oversight of PPACA, is giving the IRS funds to implement a part of the act — so far nearly $200 million has been distributed to the tax agency and $300 million more is expected to funnel from HHS to the IRS in the coming year. The IRS is in charge of several provisions of the federal healthcare act, including the controversial individual mandate, a tax levy on individuals without health insurance beginning in 2014.
Specifically Rep. Boustany — who ran a medical practice in Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to Congress — and Rep. Camp want to know how much the IRS will ultimately need to implement the PPACA, and how many new employees the agency might need to hire.
"Detail the total amount of additional money and new employees the IRS anticipates needing over the next ten years to implement ACA provisions," the congressmen write in their letter.
The legislators conclude the letter by asking: "Does the IRS plan to request funding from HHS above the Administration's own budget request?"
They've asked for a response from the IRS by no later than April 27.
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