Speaking of disappointments..

[maygoddess 53]

I Took medical expense tax deductions 2 years in a row...2002 for my surgery bills in Mexico and 2003 was for infertility treatments.

The way it works is you can deduct anything that is above 7.5% of your Adjust Gross Income..so if your AGI is $100K(just to keep this simple rounding)..if your total medical bills are $10K for that year..you can deduct anything above the 7,500(which would be the 7.5% of your AGI)so you could deduct in this instance $2500 out of the total $10K.

So everyone's will be different based on what you make.

Make sure you have receipts for everything and include everything. For those having surgery overseas, you can deduct:

airfare or other transport costs

hotel

food

taxis

cost of surgery

fills and expenses related to fills(transportation)

for your every day medical expenses, we included

medical co payments

monthly premiums

prescription costs

We had receipts for everything and we just supplied our CPA with an excel sheet of each individual expense broken down and just kept the receipts bundled together in case we ever got audited.

Anyway..definitely work with a CPA when you have years you have deductions to make sure you get it right!

Patty

8/13/02

Dr Kuri