Tax Returns Fund Tubal Reversal Surgery
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center will be having a busy surgical schedule in the spring of 2011 as couples use their income tax return money to pay for tubal reversal surgery. Fertility treatment, which includes reversal of tubal ligation, is an allowable medical expense that can be used for a tax deduction.
Tubal Reversal Message board member 'redcurlsk ' explains
"Your itemized expenses need to be more than your standard deduction for it to matter. The standard deduction for a Married filing jointly couple is $10,300. If you have itemized deductions that total more than this then you can itemize and use them. Your medical is only a portion of this amount because the allowable deduction is the amount over 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. For example - if your income is $100,000, then your allowable medical has to be more than $7,500, and then you can only deduct the amount over the $7,500. If your medical totalled $10,000, then you could use $2,500 of it. Medical can be Drs. Dentists, copays, prescription meds, glasses, contacts, and health insurance. There are some more, but these are the majors. You can also deduct travel to and from the Dr and the trip to CH. All of this goes into the number that is reduced by 7.5% of AGI. Other amounts that you can itemize and most people use are their mortgage interest, personal property tax, real estate tax, contributions, both cash and items that they give to Good Will, etc., and state withholding tax. Again there are some more, but these are the main ones. Employee business expenses sometimes come in handy here, but that is a whole other topic. Your best bet is to go to the IRS website and read about it. A lot of people don't get to use their medical expenses, but if you had your TR in 2006, then you really should check and see if it will help you out since this is probably the only time that your medical will be this high."
'stephg124ny' adds
"You have to itemize. You can claim your airfare, hotel, and food as well if you have receipts. It can be quite a good deduction."
http://forums.tubal-reversal.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/5/23491.html
This is an older thread but the information is still relevant:
IRS Info - TR valid medical expense... in forum Tubal Reversal Cost and Financing at Tubal Reversal Message Board.
Posted by Susana (Member # 8255) on May 20, 2006 05:17 PM:
Hello ladies!
I had my TR on 4/24/06 and during my visit the subject of whether or not TR can be written off came up. My job deals with taxes and tax situations and I went on the IRS site and found Publication 502 which lists what is and isn't a valid medical expense and the following excerpt was noted:
Fertility Enhancement
You can include in medical expenses the cost of the following procedures to overcome an inability to have children.
* Procedures such as in vitro fertilization (including temporary storage of eggs or sperm).
* Surgery, including an operation to reverse prior surgery that prevented the person operated on from having children.
This could help a bit in offsetting the cost of the procedure. I know my husband was glad I found this out and my TR buddy AJ suggested I post it on the boards for everyone to see. (Thanks AJ!)
Good luck to all!
Posted by SandyJ (Member # 9696) on May 22, 2006 02:24 PM:
Great info Susana.
Posted by Sally, RN (Member # 7389) on May 22, 2006 02:44 PM:
Susana--I'm sure this is valuable information for many of the women who read the board. Thanks so much for posting it.
Sally, RN
CHSC
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Posted by empty nested (Member # 7303) on May 22, 2006 03:30 PM:
You can only deduct a PART of your medical and dental expenses that is more than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. (Combined income if you are married). If your medical and dental expenses are less than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, you cannot claim the deduction on your taxes. All expenses must have been paid during the current tax year. If they were expenses that you were reimbursed for (example: medical flex plan dollars, or insurance) you may not include them as medical expenses.
To figure if the deduction would work for you you need to do the following:
1. figure the amount you paid for qualifying medical expenses after reducing the amount of payments you received from insurance and other sources. This total = X
2. figure out (estimate now) your adjusted gross income.
3. multiply your adjusted gross income by 7.5% (.075) to get total Y.
4. If total Y is more than the amount you figured in step 1 (X), you cannot claim a deduction. If it is less, subtract Y from X to figure out how much you can deduct.
It's a neat concept, but unless you have a very low income or very high medical bills it is difficult to claim.
Posted by Susana (Member # 8255) on May 22, 2006 06:57 PM:
Thanks for the calculation info!
Susana
Posted by KLJ (Member # 7534) on May 22, 2006 09:55 PM:
Can't you also claim milage and hotel cost?
Posted by empty nested (Member # 7303) on May 23, 2006 10:35 AM:
Yes you can. Milage, rental car or taxi, air fare etc...any means to get to your medical appointment. You can also claim a portion of your meal expenses.
Keep your receipts. I kept everything but still didn't qualify. This year I dumped over $8,000 into my medical flex benefits at work to be sure the government didn't get their share.
Sheila
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