Here are the reasons your penalty could have been waived:
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Coverage is considered unaffordable
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Short coverage gap
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Income below the return filing threshold
- Citizens living abroad and certain noncitizens
- Aggregate self-only coverage considered unaffordable
- Resident of a state that did not expand Medicaid
- States that did not expand Medicaid for all of 2017: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.)
- Members of a health care sharing ministry
- Members of Indian Tribes
- Incarceration
You can see the full text here:
Health
Care Coverage Exemptions
