Holy crap, thanks Rush, now I wont get yelled at here for posting written proof of it here, because many here believe whatever you say so now its OK. I beat ya to it Rush.
I saved that thread to my email. You did call it first.
I never get a tax refund. I’m self employed/retired.
The Obamacare Penalty: Yes, It Can Be Avoided.
We asked Mark Luscombe, principal analyst at CCH Tax & Accounting North America, about that. Turns out Limbaugh is essentially right. If you don't get a refund next year, the IRS could carry over the sum due and apply it against any refunds in future years. On a joint return, the penalty of one joint filer could be applied against the refund due to the other joint filer, Luscombe says.
If you dont pay it, all they can do is wait until they owe you some money and take that. Or probably just send you a letter every now and then reminding you that you owe money to the IRS, says Timothy Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and coauthor of the casebook Health Law.
And by the way, once the IRS assesses the penalty, theyve got 10 years to collect, says Bryan Camp, law professor at Texas Tech University.
The law also prohibits the IRS from using liens or levies to collect any payment you owe related to the law, if you, your spouse or a dependent included on your tax return does not have minimum essential coverage, according to the IRS. That means the IRS cannot go into someones checking accounts anyway and just take the money, as one of Limbaughs callers suggested the Obama administration might just do.