Baucus joins Rehberg in changing health care tax reporting

Montana's senior senator, Democrat Max Baucus, is sponsoring legislation that would reduce new tax reporting requirements including in the health reform legislation that Baucus helped craft.

"I have heard Montana businesses loud and clear, and I am responding to their concerns," Baucus said in a release Friday.

The provision in the health reform act would require businesses to file form 1099 paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods and certain services.

Montana's sole member in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Denny Re...