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rexpop on April 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News

Knowledge about the Individual Mandate matters a lot to lower income folks. We have to follow the news to learn about such things, whereas the privileged techie does not.

yourbandsucks on April 11, 2019 [–]

Can you explain your tax planning situation around the individual mandate? Like, did you, as a low income hacker news reader, read something on the news that you used to save money when filing your own taxes?

rexpop on April 16, 2019 | [–]

Yes: I decided to avoid the penalty. Had I not known about the penalty, I would have owed it in ignorance.

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