Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, December 16th, 2018.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, December 16th, 2018 was:
KENDRA LYNN RAMSEY
Worcester, MA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
12/10/18
Kimberly Snyder
Sandy Nevels
Eleazar Ruiz
Jennifer Vega
Brandy Williams
Adaria Johnson
Tracey Smith
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Mason
Sherri Kidwell
Derelys Peterson
Morgan Alexandra
Ashley Agner
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Be Schwerin
Mya Murphy
Tonya Velazquez
Sheila Carvell
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Tom Cavalli
Lori Sexton Leal
Karen Brunet Moore
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Alexis Maureen
12/11/18
Misty Shallcross
Be Schwerin
Deborah Farris
Jeanne Marie Rousseau
Kathleen Marks
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tonya Velazquez
Kayla Clemons
Melissa Mae
Ashley Agner
Diane Hamric
Sandy K High
Jennifer Vega
Nyeasia Pippin
Tina Auth
Karyn Koehler
Christina Cannon
April Ashcraft
Alison Giffune Paige
Cheryl Hall
12/12/18
Sherri Kidwell
Jill Nauyokas
Ashley Agner
Mya Murphy
Heather Marocco
Anna Nichols
Paula Johnson
Kacie Rogers
Dale Fish
Shannon Rush
Hunter Coffey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kim Avery
Josephine Casey
Geri Rus
Mikey Mellor
Amber Conaway
Wendi Black
Eleazar Ruiz
Amanda Nichole
12/13/18
Bea Patrick
Dale Fish
Jennifer Mason
Kathleen Marks
Jessica Steiner
Karen Rimiller Presley
Brooke Scott
Deborah Farris
Derelys Peterson
Nicole Blaha
Nacole Patrick
Kristi Cervantes
Emily Boxer
Kimberly Snyder
Erica Hanson
April Ashcraft
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Derek Jennings
Amie-Lee George
Jenifer Garza
France Camer
Amanda Nicole
Megan Rhyne
Nitasha Shank
Tearsa D Keith
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Sandy K High
12/14/18
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Lang
Michelle Tyler Jeske
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Karen Brunet Moore
Mike Adamski
Betsy Brandon Riddle Smith
Jennifer Cameron
Amanda Nicole
Kristina Harris
Tracey Smith
Jade Good
Cheryl Hall
Crystal Dotson
LaKishia Wagers
Jessica Ownby
Jodi Stevens
Christy Marie
Dale Fish
Sunney Michelle Johnson
12/15/18
Michelle Webb
Derek Jennings
Kristina Harris
Holly Cajigas
Carla Williams
Susanne Killion
Wendi Black
Jennifer Downing
Jennifer Mason
Brittany Light
Tina Auth
Erica Hansen
Deborah Farris
Angela Janisse
Karen Brunet Moore
Darlene Whyte
Stacy Nelson
Susan Clarke Jette
Laura Bernard
Jodi Stevens
Carole Jacobs
12/16/18
Christy Hawkes
Darlene Whyte
Dale Fish
Amanda Nicole
Anna Nichols
Eleazar Ruiz
Stacy Nelson
Vickie Gipson
Cyndi Jansheski
Stevie Rosson
Ambreen Rouf
Jill Nauyokas
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Jennifer Downing
Jenifer Garza
Joanie Waterman
Kimberly Snyder
Tiffany Borek
Jessica Steiner
Alicia Johnson
Amanda Nicole Young
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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In a press conference earlier in January, to announce the start of the 2017 tax filing season, which began on Jan. 23rd, the IRS said it expects more than 153 million tax returns this year.
More than 70% of taxpayers will receive a refund in 2017, with 90% or more of refunds issued in fewer than 21 days after returns are submitted, the IRS estimated. In 2016, 111 million individual tax refunds were issued.
Most filers who received government subsidies to buy Obamacare state exchange plans had to pay money back to the IRS last year, according to an H&R Block analysis released in 2016 that looks at the health law’s two full tax seasons. If a taxpayer projected a higher annual household income than they actually claimed in their filing, they may owe tax credits back that they received by purchasing an Obamacare policy or their state’s exchange plan. One other cause for having to repay tax credits is due to claiming eligibility, but not being eligible due to having access to affordable employer coverage.
The tax-prep giant studied its own massive customer base and concluded that two-thirds of its filers who got subsidies from Obamacare were overpaid during the course of the year, and owed money back to the IRS on the April 15th deadline.
The ‘Affordable’ Care Act, better known as Obamacare, mandates Americans — unless they’re qualified for an exemption — to carry health insurance coverage or pay a penalty when filing their tax returns. The IRS says most taxpayers simply need to check a box to verify that they have insurance. For others with more complex answers, the agency offers tips on IRS.gov/aca.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the number of people receiving Obamacare subsidies during the last tax season (2015 tax filing), was up from 3 million in 2014. For that year, customers got more than $10 billion in tax credits, with an average subsidy of $3,430 annually, according to the IRS. Obamacare subsidies are available to wage earners with low and moderate incomes. People who earn less money get more in assistance than higher earners.
Koskinen wrote that about 6.5 million taxpayers last tax season reported owing a total of $3 billion in such tax penalties for failing to have coverage in 2015. In contrast, about 8 million people owed an Obamacare fine for lack of coverage in 2014. Fines related to lack of coverage in 2014 totaled $1.6 billion.
CNBC reported that some 12.7 million people claimed one or more exemptions from the ACA-coverage mandate when they filed their taxes last year. “The exemptions are wide ranging and can include having very low income, being incarcerated or having a close family member die recently,” according to CNBC.
The primary reason for the decline in Obamacare fines last year appears to be that millions of Americans experienced a significant drop in income, which ironically is a direct result of the economic damage inflicted on businesses by the financial strictures of the Obama ‘Affordable’ Care Act (ACA).
CNBC also reported that the new Republican-led Congress last month began taking steps toward repealing key parts of the ACA, which include the funding of premium subsidies and the individual mandate. For the middle class’s economic sake, let’s hope the effort is successful.
The National Taxpayer Advocate has released their 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report contains data regarding Obamacare premium tax credits (PTC) and individual shared responsibility payment (ISRP) filings – The Obamacare tax penalties for not having health coverage.
The report identifies a number of issues that the IRS has faced or is facing involving the Obamacare ACA and makes a number of recommendations. These include:
- The IRS seems to have largely addressed early problems of Obamacare tax overpayments through outreach conducted to tax practitioners and software providers.
- Reconciliation of PTCs (the Obamacare low-income subsidies) with advance PTCs (APTCs) continues to cause problems, and has risen to the fourth highest category of Taxpayer Advocacy Service cases, accounting for nearly 11,000 cases in 2016. The primary problem seems to be the IRS holding up processing of returns when taxpayers fail to file a form 8962 and reconcile their advance PTC with their PTC.
- Processing of tax filings is delayed when Obamacare APTC recipients incorrectly file form 1040-E, which does not allow for APTC reconciliation.
- The IRS is taking action to address “silent returns,” which do not either check the box indicating full-year coverage, claim an exemption, or paying the ISRP tax penalty. The IRS will send a letter 12C requesting more information in these cases and assess the ISRP if no response is forthcoming.
- The Taxpayer Advocate recommends that the IRS should ease the burden on individuals claiming the religious exemption by allowing individuals exempt from the Social Security and Medicare taxes to simply indicate this on their form 8965 rather than requiring them to apply separately for an Obamacare ISRP religious exemption.
- The Taxpayer Advocate recognizes that taxpayers who receive large Social Security Disability Payments may have to repay Obamacare APTC subsidies they received. There is no apparent administrative fix for this problem.
- The IRS needs to provide specialized training to its newly established Obamacare ACA Business Exam unit, which handles employer ACA returns.
- The IRS may not be adequately prepared to handle Obamacare ACA employer filings. It had expected 77 million 1095-Cs for 2016 and received 104 million or 35% more than expected. Of these Obamacare employer filings, 5.4 percent were then rejected.
The IRS, in a statement regarding taxpayer compliance issues has said: “The IRS will follow its normal compliance approach to filed tax returns. During its normal processes, the IRS routinely follows up on the accuracy and completeness of tax returns and may ask taxpayers to substantiate the information on their tax returns. These inquiries sometime occur before processing refund requests and other times after the processing of refund requests.”
“The vast majority of taxpayers voluntarily comply with their tax responsibilities—our income tax system is built on voluntary compliance,” the IRS said.
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