And now we all have to pay the penalty for allowing that culture to fester.
An individual who fails to pay the penalty is not subject to criminal or additional civil penalties.
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Under an arrangement worked out last year, Gingrich agreed to pay the penalty out of his own pocket.
So if an employer has 200 non-covered employees, it would have to pay the penalty on 170 of them.
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You miss-hit a shot and you're going to pay the penalty for it.
Transworld refused to pay the penalty and denied the charges, then sued the trio after they set up their own trading companies.
Now if a cafe accepts your payment in Bristol Pound, you know they are either going to buy local or pay the penalty.
And individuals as well could just skip the insurance and pay the penalty at a savings of at least 50% to 75% or more.
Lots of people who would really benefit from more retirement income choose to cash out and pay the penalty when they change jobs.
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Without the mandate, they argue, many people would simply pay the penalty for being uninsured and get coverage only when they need expensive medical care.
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If Nokia ends up having to pay the penalty, it would represent a hefty payment for a company scrambling to regain competitiveness in the mobile-device business.
If the employer decided to let the employees work more than 30 hours (and pay the penalty), the money to pay the penalty would have to come from somewhere.
So it will be much cheaper for the uninsured to remain that way and pay the penalty, which will usually be much smaller than the cost of insurance, and then delay purchasing protection until they actually need healthcare.
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Among 400 employers with 50 workers or more, 71% said they plan to continue offering health insurance while just 3% said they plan to pay the penalty, according to a February survey by the National Small Business Association, a nonpartisan entrepreneur-advocacy group in Washington, D.
Even though the penalty is in the Internal Revenue Code it is not tax, because Congress did not call it a tax and also the IRS does not have most of the means it uses to collect taxes available to coerce people who choose not to pay the penalty.
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Hang in for a mere seven years and the deferral will more than pay for the penalty.
Will people pay the tax penalty and not purchase health insurance, or will they enter the health insurance marketplace as the government hopes?
Many parents who previously rushed to pick up children due to social responsibility and peer pressure chose the easy financial way out, to pay the small penalty.
If your employer makes a mistake with the design of your executive benefit plan, would you expect to have to pay the tax and penalty for the employer?
"If it's low cost-basis stock, it's not a big deal, " Fahlund explains, because you would pay the 10% penalty on the cost basis, not the current market value of shares.
If the Shell Oil hoax is determined by a court to violate a law (such as trademark infringement), Greenpeace and the Yes Men should man up, accept the verdict and pay the appropriate penalty.
There is a huge incentive under the Affordable Care Act for employers to shut down their health insurance plans, pay the relatively small penalty, and ship their workers over to the new health exchanges where the vast majority will get very large subsidies.
"This proposed change would address consumer concerns that it is unfair that providers are currently able to raise prices, while they themselves have little choice but to accept the increase or pay a penalty to exit the contract, " said Ofcom.
The state was not ordered to pay a penalty and the SEC acknowledged that it had "implemented a number of remedial actions and issued corrective disclosures beginning in 2009".
And people who are in America illegally have a responsibility -- to pay their back taxes and admit responsibility for breaking the law, pay a penalty, learn English, pass criminal background checks, and get right with the law -- or face removal -- before they can get in line and eventually earn their citizenship.
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Having to pay even the slightest penalty in damage to his reputation for the vast array of moral and ethical crimes he has so clearly committed?
As a price for a more equitable society, many policymakers, Obama apparently included, would pay the 1% penalty (on behalf of us) as a swap for a more equitable society.
Instead you can receive distributions from your IRA that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) based on your life expectancy or the joint life expectancies of you and your beneficiary without having to pay the 10 percent penalty.
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Some of that may just be from giving customers the option to pay their way out of the penalty fee.
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Once I realized this, I accepted the fact that the only way to comply with the PPACA was simply to plan to pay whatever penalty was in the law.
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