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There's been at least one attempt to reverse the 1099 reporting changes: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5982 http://www.govtrack.us/congress
by Encosia 16y ago
There's been at least one attempt to reverse the 1099 reporting changes: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5982 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5982
Each representative that voted no on this should get an earful. With no riders on the bill, a no-vote there is inexcusable (especially given the composition of the votes, which flies directly in the face of certain rhetoric).
edit: Correction, this isn't the bill I thought it was. It does have a couple of extra provisions (to which votes against should also be infuriating for most). There's at least one other bill out there that was singularly focused on reverting the 1099 requirement change, which was also voted down.
In addition to the insane reporting burden this will add, I think important privacy implications of this change are being overlooked. Spreading SSNs and EINs as wide and far as this bill requires will certainly result in increased identity theft.
- ck2 16y agoIf we don't get them to fix this in an election year, it will never get fixed unfortunately.
- roboneal 16y agoI might argue that we should work "in an election year" voting OUT the idiots who thought this was a good idea.
- irons 16y agoThat's not how legislation works. I don't understand why this wound up in the ACA, but it seems plainly peripheral, and anyone voting against the ACA on the basis of this legislative oddity would have earned far more wrath than they're getting now for having passed it. It's not going to get fixed now because the Republicans benefit more from the impression that government doesn't work than they do by solving any problems. It'll get fixed at the eleventh hour.