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I was asked by Turbo Tax if I had health insurance for 2016. Nope. I was asked why not. I answered an available answer, which was "I couldn't afford it." They saw my income, they saw it was all part time jobs, and though the initial assessment said I should have been able to afford 180 bucks a month, my answer to that question on the federal taxes assessed my penalty for the year. That penalty? ZERO dollars. I was floored. But I was thankful. I was honest, and I got a bit of karma for that.
Oh, I still owed some fed taxes, state taxes, and city and school taxes due to that crappy situation, but it would have been so much worse with that healthcare penalty.
Who knew?
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