Taxpayers will be able to apply for exemptions to Obamacare’s individual mandate on their tax returns for the 2018 coverage year, the Trump administration announced Wednesday.
The move is meant to make it easier for Americans to avoid the penalty for lacking health insurance. Last year’s tax law zeroed out the penalty for the individual mandate starting in 2019, but people who don’t have insurance coverage this year would still have to pay it.
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