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What Happens If You Don’t File Your Taxes?

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes, as the saying goes. Taxes are an annual event that, however unpleasant, we all have to deal with. It may interest you to know that according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an estimated 239.3 million tax returns were filed in 2012 by individuals and businesses in the United States. That amount exceeded by a little more than 1% the number of returns that were filed in 2011, and by 2018 that...

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Understanding Obamacare’s Hardship Exemption

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Understanding Obamacare: How The Affordable Care Act Will Affect Your Taxes

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Certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are set to take effect in 2014, some of which may have an impact on taxpayers. The PPACA, more colloquially known as “Obamacare,” is the new healthcare law that sets up either a state or government run health exchanges. Along with the change in healthcare accessibility comes a change in taxes.

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R&G Brenner Launches Insurance Division

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Yasmin D. Brenner has been tapped to lead R&G Brenner’s newly created Insurance division.  The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is now in effect, which means that every citizen must have health insurance which meets a minimum standard of coverage by March 31st, 2014 or be assessed a monetary penalty (this penalty can grow to over $2000 per family by 2016!).

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Tax Implications Of The Affordable Care Act

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The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is constitutional.  So what does this mean for taxpayers?  A lot.  Almost every taxpayer–whether they currently have or do not have insurance–will be affected; assuming of course that the PPACA remains the law of the land. Below is a list that will impact taxpayers the most:

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