This year, most individuals and families should be able to cope with Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act tax reporting requirements by checking the "full-year coverage" box on line 11 of Form 1040-EZ, line 38 of Form 1040A or line 61 of Form 1040.

Taxpayers who cannot check that box will have some extra tax return work to do.

Gladys Nichols, an official at the Internal Revenue Service, talks about the PPACA "individual shared responsibility" and advance premium tax credit  tax filing requirements in a guide aimed at agents, brokers and other public exchange helpers.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.