Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms

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Fox News:

The Obama administration revealed Friday that it sent about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers a tax form containing the wrong information, and asked them to hold off on filing their 2014 taxes.

 

The self-inflicted bungle follows weeks of administration officials touting a successful enrollment season -- one that saw far fewer technical glitches than the rocky launch in late 2013.

 

About 11.4 million people signed up this season. But the errors in tax information mean that nearly 1 million people may have to wait longer to get their tax refunds this year.

 

California, which is running its own insurance market, just announced a similar problem affecting about 100,000 people in that state.

 

For those using HealthCare.gov, the federal health department said on its blog on Friday that some people received a form that included faulty premium information. The blog said that information "needs to be corrected," and new forms should be available by early March.

 

"This does not mean that your tax credit was incorrect; this is purely an error in what was printed on the form," the blog post said.

 

But the administration is urging customers, that, "If your form was incorrect, please wait to file your 2014 Federal income taxes."

 

That's a hiccup for anyone trying to get their taxes filed early this year. And the 50,000 or so who already filed may have to resubmit their returns.

 

The error became fast fodder for ObamaCare critics. Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., said the administration has built a law so complex "that even they don't know how to properly administer it."

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Nearly 100,000 waiting on correct Obamacare tax forms

Robert King

March 20, 2015

 

 

 

Roughly 80,000 Obamacare customers still need to get their new tax forms to replace botched forms previously distributed by the Obama administration, with Tax Day just a few weeks away.

 

The administration accidentally sent an incorrect tax form to 820,000 customers of Obamacare. Of those, 741,000 have received corrected forms and the rest will get a new form either electronically or in the mail in the next week, officials said in a call with reporters Friday.

 

Taxpayers affected by the botched forms will not get an extension to file their returns beyond the April 15 deadline, said Mark Mazur, assistant secretary for tax policy at Treasury on the call. He did note that the administration could change its mind closer to the deadline.

 

Taxpayers can get an automatic six-month extension to filing their income tax return, but they must turn in paperwork before April 15 to do so.

 

 

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