August 08, 2023
A $1.1 million penalty against a wireless phone retailer for failing to offer employees health insurance is a tax, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a decision that the company's penalty challenge was barred by a law prohibiting suits that restrain tax collection.
February 09, 2023
The D.C. Circuit questioned a phone retailer's argument challenging $1.1 million in taxes for failing to offer employees health insurance, with the court saying Thursday that Congress warned of such a levy by calling the penalty a tax in the Affordable Care Act.
January 30, 2023
A Fourth Circuit ruling categorizing a charge levied under the Affordable Care Act as a tax rather than a penalty supports the Internal Revenue Service's bid to uphold its decision to charge a phone retailer $1.1 million under the act for failing to offer employees health insurance, the agency told the D.C. Circuit.
January 04, 2023
The IRS asked the D.C. Circuit to uphold a decision to charge a phone retailer $1.1 million in penalties for failing to offer employees health insurance, saying Wednesday that the retailer's challenge of the fines overtly violates a law barring lawsuits that hinder tax collection.
December 15, 2022
In its bid to overturn $1.1 million in penalties for failing to offer health insurance to employees, a phone retailer told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. government failed to prove Congress considered the penalties to be taxes.
October 21, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service asked the D.C. Circuit on Friday to uphold $1.1 million in penalties on a phone retailer that failed to offer employees health insurance, saying the company wrongly claimed the penalties it owes the agency are not taxes.
August 23, 2022
Phone retailer Optimal Wireless urged the D.C. Circuit to revive its challenge to $1.1 million in Affordable Care Act health insurance penalties, arguing that a lower court judge erroneously characterized the penalty as a tax to justify dismissing the case.