Deductions Hospital Expenses You May Qualify For.
The cost of your meals and lodging are tax deductible.
In order to be able claim these amounts on your medical expenses, you have to show evidence that meals and lodging are furnished by a hospital or a similar institution where you received medical care.
If the meals and lodging are not provided by a hospital, even if you are away from home and you are receiving medical treatment, they are not tax deductible.
Meals And Lodging Tax Deduction
You are allowed to claim a maximum deduction of $50 per day for you and for certain accompanying individual.
You may qualify for this deduction if you receive medical care for a physical condition in a nursing home or a home for aged people.
Tax News Updates:
Private hospital suspends 85 nurses
“After deductions, we get just Rs. 4500 in hand. We have demanded that our salaries match that of nurses in other private hospitals in the city.” Hospital director Dinesh Madhavan denied any strike by nurses, but said around 80 of them did not turn up ...
New NHIF Rates Put On Hold for Three Months
By Henry Kibira, 9 May 2012 THE government yesterday suspended contributions to the embattled National Hospital Insurance Fund scheme for three months, pending investigations into alleged misappropriation at the parastatal. The move comes barely a day ...
Cotu gives strike notice over new NHIF rates
“We are in hard economic times and workers have been forced to make do with budgets that are not commensurate with a salaried person as deductions alone leave most workers indebted to the employer,” said Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) ...
Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu gets face-lift
“I have also paid arrears of deductions up to four months to respective people and organizations. “For the first time in this hospital, since 1997, conversion exercise was done to the glory of God. We have spent some money training and re-training ...
