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Any ways to avoid the no health insurance tax penalty?

TridenT

TridenT

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It is pretty massive. (2% or $700) Next year it's going to be even more. I'm not actually sure how I am going to get healthcare for next year because I still have a CA license (and the address is for a place I have never lived in) but I'm in WA for now with trips to CA here and there. I'd like to get back but I can't afford a $1400+/month room for rent at the moment. I wasn't able to afford the $400+/month health insurance plan that was offered to me under cobra once I was unemployed. Even then, it would've only covered me if I had continued to live in the Bay Area. Which I wasn't going to be, I left immediately once my health insurance expired. I didn't have income most of this year. State sponsored health care was kinda impossible because I'd be out of state all the time. I didn't make assloads of money this year to really justify $200+/month on healthcare especially since trying to get a place to rent in the Bay Area usually requires a minimum of $3-5k down for the first month. I was in Arizona staying with family during the beginning of the year. Then in California being quasi-homeless and then a room for rent and then a studio. Then back to Arizona with family... and now Washington with family. Most months of the year I didn't have healthcare because I couldn't really enroll? I wasn't technically 'living' anywhere. I was staying with family members or friends. I had a Washington license until August of this year even though I hadn't lived in Washington since June of 2014. I had to get an out of state extension for my license and for my car because I couldn't easily prove I really lived anywhere. I had no bills to my name or any rental agreements until March to July. And then, of course, the open enrollment time is only during the beginning of the year anyway. :/ I didn't know about special enrollment periods until now. And unless the plan was free, I couldn't really afford it... especially since I wouldn't even be able to use the plan most months of the year since it'd have to change every 3 months...

Would I have a decent case for removal of the penalty for due to hardship?

EDIT: Apparently this year it's $325. I might be able to knock it down to 2/3 or so because I had health insurance for at least 1 day in March, April, May, June, and July. Maybe I could take off a couple other months for homelessness? Who knows... 🙁
 
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Ask your google manager what their advice on the situation is since you turned down their healthcare.
 
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Apparently, they got a good look at your suit choices.

Gotten that back from the tailor yet ?

The saga continues...
 
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If you had such little income then you may not have to file taxes to begin with. I think the threshold is around $6k?
 
Hmmm let's see now. Priorities in life:

1: Garbage cans.
2: Zoot suits.
3: Other stuff...
...
11ty billion: Health insurance.

Yeah that sounds about right. Right?
 
Can't afford $325 but can spend $ thousands on things you don't need. Gotcha!

And why ask for advice when you'd ignore all of it anyways?
 
It's absolutely unbelievable the Supreme Court allowed this crap. But, you reap what you sow. Vote for another moron next election.
 
John Connor said:
It's absolutely unbelievable the Supreme Court allowed this crap. But, you reap what you sow. Vote for another moron next election.
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There's already a thread about that. So Trump or Cruz?

Atoter 1: "Hey man what kinda car is that?"

Atoter 2: "It's the all new HilBern Motors TrumporCruzer!"

Atoter 1: "Raggedy ass hoopty."

Atoter 2: "I know but it's all we've got. We need to drive this thing until our representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. We have no choice. Folks we have no... choice."😱
 
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John Connor said:
You think Trump or Cruz won't get rid of the ACA?
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Twit.

They only started bitching about it once it finally was passed.

Just another reason they should not be elected, it's not like they could just do that just by being elected.

Your lack of political knowledge is showing again.
 
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lxskllr said:
Don't pay it. I'm not.
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Personal choice I guess, but I did have the IRS come after my butt this year for something one of my wife3s former employers did badly.

Had to refute a few things he screwed her over and lowered it to half, but still was $400 bucks to the IRS and she is still owed $10K from the guy.

Didn't know that at the time, kinda came out when the IRS letter came in the mail.
 
MongGrel said:
Personal choice I guess, but I did have the IRS come after my butt this year for something one of my wife3s former employers did badly.

Had to refute a few things he screwed her over and lowered it to half, but still was $400 bucks to the IRS and she is still owed $10K from the guy.

Didn't know that at the time, kinda came out when the IRS letter came in the mail.
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They can't do a thing about Obamacare fines aside from taking refunds, and it's foolish to use the government as a bank.
 
lxskllr said:
They can't do a thing about Obamacare fines aside from taking refunds, and it's foolish to use the government as a bank.
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The fines weren't health care related actually, I'm just saying.

Personally I agree, believe it or not.

I see way too many people sucking off the government in general on a daily basis when I have worked my most of my life actually manufacturing various products.

I'm a bit touchy and conservative that way myself, believe it or not.

There are many things in life that piss me off to no end to be honest.

But Merry Christmas 🙂
 
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And, you're still not funny, no matter how many capitals letters you use.

You're not L33T, you are late to the game.

By decades.

N00B.
 
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It's never worth it to try to find a tax loophole. They will find you, and they will tax you, very hard. Unless you're a corporation, then every tax loophole you can find is free game.
 
The whole damn 5,000 page? tax code is a loop hole! In fact everyone could be violating one rule or another.

What kind of tax code do they have up North?
 
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