Some Surprised by Affordable Care Act Penalties

Описание: ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- New rules under the Affordable Care Act are resulting in some big surprises for people filing their 2014 tax returns.

Tax penalties are now being applied to people who did not purchase health insurance, fines that can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

Tax preparers say people seem to have been caught off guard by the size of the penalty.

"Most just thought it was the $95 minimum penalty," Dora Robinson with H

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