Calif. tax preparers paid bounty for every Obamacare sign up

[CaseyJones]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/ta...for-obamacare/

Tax-preparing companies are getting paid by an Obamacare exchange to enroll people in Obamacare plans, The Daily Caller has learned.

At least 79 tax service providers, including offices of major companies like Liberty Tax Service and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, are listed as certified Obamacare enrollment entities in the state of California, according to state exchange records.

California’s Obamacare exchange, Covered California, pays enrollment entities for signing people up for Obamacare.

“Certified Enrollment Entities are paid a flat-fee of $58 per successful application and $25 per successful annual renewal,” according to California Health Benefit Advisers. ”The Enrollment Entities compensate the individual Enrollment Counselors.”

Certified Enrollment Entities in California include multiple offices of Liberty Tax Service and an Inglewood office of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. Certified Enrollment Entities can include “non-profit community organizations,” labor unions, tax preparers, community clinics and other kinds of groups.

[jbauer]

So was anyone who was an enroller. This is a non story

[Keith and stuff]

1 of the main stated purposes of Obamacare was to grow the size of the IRS. I'm not surprised that as the IRS greatly grows and the tax code becomes much more complicated, that tax preparers benefit.