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Tax Returns and Health Insurance
The IRS was prepared to require tax filers to indicate on line 61 whether they and their family had health coverage during 2016. If not, taxpayers are subject to a penalty. Now it appears, due to President Trump, that filing out line 61 is optional.
Obamacare--Loss of Health Insurance Subsidies
Under federal rules, anyone who receives an insurance subsidy must file a tax return to verify that the person was eligible and received the proper amount of financial assistance based on household income. There is the risk of loss of health insurance subsidies for failure to file tax return.
Tax Returns and Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is part health law, part tax law. Some feel benefited by the law, some burdened by it.