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Today, a group of four congressmen introduced a carbon tax bill that will impose a 300% IRS penalty for noncompliance.

The bill calls for a steep, automatically ratcheting tax increase on the American people which will increase household costs and the price of gas. The new tax could extract over $150 billion per year.

And consider yourself warned: The IRS will come knocking for a 300% penalty on “any person who fails to comply.”

Yes, you read that correctly: Three hundred percent.

Let’s go straight to the bill, so you can see for yourself. Section 9906 reads as follows:

PENALTIES FOR NONPAYMENT

“Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of section 9901, 9902, 9903, or 9904 shall be liable for payment to the Secretary, without demand, of a penalty in the amount equal to 3 times the applicable amount specified by those sections for the same tax year as the year in which the person failed to comply with such requirements.”

An IRS Enrolled Agent interviewed for this article noted the unusually harsh — perhaps unprecedented — IRS penalty. “As an Enrolled Agent who has run his own tax prep firm for over a decade, I’ve never run into anything close to a 300 percent tax penalty. The biggest one I can think of is 50 percent, and most are far smaller than that,” said Ryan L. Ellis.

The new carbon tax hike bill imposes a massive tax on American manufacturing and employers, encourages the creation of state carbon taxes, creates a long list of products to be carbon-taxed and gives the EPA chief unfettered power to add to that list.

The bill also creates a UN-style “National Climate Commission” which will be given the power to access data and documents from any federal government entity.

Taxpayer-funded federal employees will be detailed to the Commission while continuing to receive their salary. The Commission will arrange for travel expenses, have the ability to hire “experts and consultants” and even have postal franking privileges.

The commission will create a new federal bureaucracy seeking to create even more climate regulations.

In classic Washington-speak, the name of the bill is the MARKET CHOICE ACT. The bill sponsors are Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), Scott Peters (D-Calif.), Francis Rooney (RINO-Fla.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.)

See also:

Hillary Clinton Memo Shows Carbon Tax Devastating to Low Income Households

Center for American Progress Founder: “We have done extensive polling on a carbon tax. It all sucks.” 

Carbon Tax Pushers Beware: Australia’s Carbon Tax Politicians Were Quickly Voted Out of Office