We immigrated to the US on 03/16 and missed the 2016 ACA enrollment.
The plans at the marketplace all had monthly premiums of at least $1000.
When filling up the Healty Care portion of the tax return we see a few options to justify not having had healthcare on 2016. One of the options is
[x] Marketplace plans too expensive with tooltip explanation of (cost > 8% of household income considered too expensive) .
We qualify on that category since our yearly income was ~ $26,000.
Can we safely select this option and pick all months where "healthcare was too expensive", even the months we didn't live in the country? (if we leave these months unselected we are asked to pay for pro-rate penalty for them).
Thanks in advance
Sergio
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You are a "Dual Status Alien" in 2016. That means you can check the box that you were a 'Resident of a Foriegn Country' to waive the penalty for the entire year of 2016.
If you do not have health insurance in 2017, you will be subject to the penalty unless you qualify for a different exemption.
However, TurboTax is not set up to do tax returns for a Dual Status Alien. You do have the option to make the election to be treated as a Resident for the entire year. TurboTax does not do that, you would need to manually do it and mail it with your tax return (it can not be e-filed through TurboTax).
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p519/ch01.html#en_US_2015_publink1000222177
You are a "Dual Status Alien" in 2016. That means you can check the box that you were a 'Resident of a Foriegn Country' to waive the penalty for the entire year of 2016.
If you do not have health insurance in 2017, you will be subject to the penalty unless you qualify for a different exemption.
However, TurboTax is not set up to do tax returns for a Dual Status Alien. You do have the option to make the election to be treated as a Resident for the entire year. TurboTax does not do that, you would need to manually do it and mail it with your tax return (it can not be e-filed through TurboTax).
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p519/ch01.html#en_US_2015_publink1000222177
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