Poor people file taxes. Are you kidding?
It’s the only way to claim their ‘tax refund’...the ‘free-money’ EIC (earned income tax credit).
(you have no idea how hard it was for me to type that without colorful metaphors)
As far as the ‘mandate’, I’m sure there’s more laws coming out of the Oval Office (hack) to make more exceptions...
I found a blurb by chance on Military.com re how the ‘penalty’ is applied:
Exceptions, too.