So you probably know there is a penalty if you don't have health insurance coverage. Ok ho hum, blah blah, I have health insurance through work, and it costs me $300 a month in addition to employer subsidy, so it already costs me and then some.
But what I didn't know is that some tax programs (I am using tax cut) ASSUME you DON'T have health insurance. So I was doing my taxes as usual, assuming I owe a lot of money, which is nothing new as I do more often than not and was just going to grudgingly cut the check. But it turns out they were assuming I don't have healthcare. And so bottom line is I probably don't owe money! Woo hoo!
Only how many people are doing their taxes by tax programs now (or even have poorly trained H&R block people, I don't know) who wouldn't see this and would pay oh some addition 1k to the Federal government just because. Because the ACA itself is not that new, but I don't think prior years made this unfavorable assumption of users NOT having health insurance.