{"id":13274,"date":"2015-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/florida-hospitals-reject-gov-scotts-proposal-to-increase-taxes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:19","slug":"florida-hospitals-reject-gov-scotts-proposal-to-increase-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/florida-hospitals-reject-gov-scotts-proposal-to-increase-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Hospitals Reject Gov. Scott&#8217;s Proposal to Increase Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRS problems aren&#039;t as complicated as they look once you see the structure. I&#039;m attorney Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve represented taxpayers before the IRS for three decades \u2014 in Florida, Colorado, Texas, and internationally. Here&#039;s the plain-English breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>In a move to make up money in the Lower Income Pool (LIP), Governor Rick Scott has\u00a0proposed to increase the taxes on hospitals. \u00a0However this move has been strongly opposed by the hospitals themselves. \u00a0In a letter signed by 22 of Florida&#8217;s hospitals, the Florida Hospitals Association instead backed a proposal by the Senate to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act,\u00a0which in turn is opposed by the Florida House of Representatives and Governor Rick Scott. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/law-offices-darrin-t-mish-p-tax-attorney\/irs-back-taxes\/\">Click here to watch or read more information on IRS Back Taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the impasse as the <a title=\"Florida Hospital groups reject Gov. Scott&#039;s call to increase taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/tbo.com\/news\/blogs\/fresh-squeezed-politics\/hospital-group-rejects-gov-scotts-call-for-increased-tax-20150518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hospital groups reject Governor Scott&#8217;s call for increased taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS problems aren&#039;t as complicated as they look once you see the structure. I&#039;m attorney Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve represented taxpayers before the IRS for three decades \u2014 in Florida, Colorado, Texas, and internationally. Here&#039;s the plain-English breakdown. In a move to make up money in the Lower Income Pool (LIP), Governor Rick Scott has\u00a0proposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22516,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions\/22516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}