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El hecho que la multa financiera aumentará este año significa que es más inteligente conseguir cobertura de salud en vez de pagar multas de impuestos
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el pago de responsabilidad compartida, entró en vigor el 2014, y muchos de los que carecen de seguro de salud verán un impacto en sus impuestos cuando los preparan en abril de este año. Sin embargo, la multa subirá significativamente para el 2015, lo que significa que es importante que todos los californianos sin seguro tengan a la mano esta información y tomen medidas ahora - antes de que termine el período de inscripción abierta - para evitar multas significativas cuando preparan sus impuestos del 2015 el próximo año. “Con ciertas excepciones, todos en Estados Unidos están obligados a tener un seguro de salud para ellos y sus familias en lugar de depender de otros para pagar por su atención médica”, dijo Lee. “A medida que la
multa sube, tiene más y más sentido para aquellos que han estado esperando visitar Covered California y obtener cobertura.” En el 2016, el pago de responsabilidad compartida para los que no tienen seguro de salud subirá aún más. La misma familia de cuatro que pagaría $988
por no tener cobertura en el 2015 probablemente pagará $2.085 en el 2016 si no tienen cobertura de salud, dependiendo de sus circunstancias específicas. Los individuos y las familias con ingresos que califican para Medi-Cal también se verían afectados si no tienen cobertura. A2
La temporada de impuestos abre en Enero 20
El IRS comenzará a aceptar declaraciones de impuestos electrónicamente el 20 de enero. Tras la aprobación de extensiones legislativas, el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS) anunció que anticipa abrir la temporada de impuestos del 2015 en enero, tal como estaba programado. El IRS comenzará a aceptar declaraciones de impuestos electrónicamente el 20 de enero. Las declaraciones de impuestos presentadas en papel se procesarán al mismo tiempo. La decisión sigue la renovación de varias disposiciones tributarias “extendidas” por el Congreso, que caducaron al final del 2013. El Congreso estableció las disposiciones hasta el final del 2014. La legislación final se firmó como ley el 19 de diciembre de 2014. “Hemos revisado los cambios tardíos a las leyes tributarias y determi-
nado que nada nos impide continuar las actualizaciones y pruebas de nuestros sistemas”, dijo John Koskinen, Comisionado del IRS. “Nuestros empleados seguirán con un horario agresivo para las pruebas y preparativos de nuestros sistemas durante el próxi-
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Covered California intensifica información a consumidores sin seguro médico que la multa por falta de cobertura subirá en el 2015 os días antes de la fecha límite para cobertura que comienza en Febrero, Covered California anunció el martes que está intensificando la información a consumidores sobre el aumento de la multa por no tener seguro de salud, fomentando a los californianos sin cobertura que exploraren sus opciones y se registren para evitar una cuenta de impuestos cara el próximo año. “Es importante que los consumidores comprendan que el costo de quedarse sin seguro está aumentando”, dijo Peter Lee, director ejecutivo de Covered California. “Este año, una familia de cuatro que gana $70.000 al año podría pagar cerca de $1.000 en sus impuestos si se quedan sin seguro médico en el 2015.” La multa, conocida como
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más rápida de obtener un reembolso. No hay ninguna ventaja en presentar una declaración de impuestos en papel temprano, a principios de enero, en lugar de esperar a que empiecen a procesar las declaraciones electrónicas por medio de e-file.
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The Hispanic Voice AL VASQUEZ Opinion Journalist thehispanicvoice.com alvasquez@aol.com
Immigration Reform-Part II
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mmigration reform will become a hot issue and will result in a roadblock with two mind sets. One determined to win the Latino vote through finger pointing, the other in solving the problem without being slaughtered at the polls. Neither party is thinking outside the box and dealing with the excruciating humanitarian problem we have created. Statistics for 2014, reveal 414,481 undocumented immigrants were deported and 162,814 voluntarily left the country after being arrested. That is a total of 577,295 who were given the boot to leave our nation in one year of the Obama administration. A decrease of 14% for Mexicans from the previous year and a increase of 68% Central Americans from the previous year. The majority still came from Mexico, 85% had a criminal record. The previous year, only 67% had a criminal record. As a opinion journalist, it is incumbent of me to understand hidden aspects of numbers. I visited the front lines where the deported are released in Mexico and offer some revealing thoughts. My first confrontation with reality came when I found many of the deported I spoke to were young women, alone, vulnerable and without resources. My second confrontation was in finding most all of them spoke as good English as I did and at least half of them had never lived in Mexico without parents having arrived in the United States before the age of five. Suddenly, this became an issue for me seeing vultures already circling the prey knowing they could not support themselves in a foreign environment . In speaking to them, I found 75% had children who were born in the United States, still in the United States without their mother. There was absolute panic of mothers not knowing where their children ended up, many had been picked up by Border Patrol on their way to work, store or just at random. How do you help a stranger find her children in the United States over the telephone a nation away? An impossible task with no funds. The recently deported had this glazed look in their eyes as if in a bad dream. Many had antecedents such as having been caught before, given a summons to appear and they did not for fear of deportation making them criminals with warrants for their arrest. They settled along the fence line at the border in card board boxes, a red flag for scammers who would quickly spot the prettier ones and offer them
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assistance. We in America and our political party bickering are the biggest suppliers of fresh meat to the sex slave trade. I took interest in this situation and at the first opportunity I spoke to the Chief of Police of Mexicali and expressed my deep concern. On my subsequent trip to my surprise, the row of card board boxes were gone. Was the problem solved? No, just moved to a secluded desert area away from the border where no one could see the feeding of the wolves. I have attempted to research statistics of children left sometimes alone for days not knowing what happened to their mothers, fathers or guardians . The best I could find was an estimate of 15,000 to 20,000 American citizen children being held in “governmental foster homes”. This is indeed an unspoken humanitarian crisis. Add this to the 60,000 or more children who arrived unaccompanied late last year and somewhere in this great nation we have close to 100,000 children who have lost their parents through deportation. Kind hearted Americans are not against “legal” immigration. Do it legally! A good credo to follow but our corrupted political vision of immigration reform is now dealing with a backlog of legal application exceeding 19 years. Applications submitted August 22, 1993 are now being processed. Back ground checks and fingerprinting have an expiration date which will stall you further when called because documentation will have to be resubmitted. There are 4 million applications for legal entry into the United States PLUS those already here add up to 5.5 million. Many lines make up the waiting lists for green cards, just in sibling requests alone there is a 2.4 million backlog. According to PEW Research Center, 64% of Republicans and 81% of Democrats support a path to citizenship. Democrats are the most likely to benefit in votes. Across the board, 73% of Americans accept having the undocumented stay in the United States and 50% accept a route to citizenship. Hispanics perhaps closer to the problem agree with a path towards citizenship. In 1986, Republican president Ronald Reagan dealt with this very same issue signed an amnesty law with the understanding there would be border security. Two significant things happened, 1) Latinos forgot Reagan was a Republican and 2) Democrats down play border security instead making immigration reform a significant issue against Republicans.
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