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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Income tax ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.215721.12433@unocal.com>
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- Organization: Unocal Corporation
- References: <Jan.26.09.38.52.1993.14618@presto.ig.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:57:21 GMT
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- In article <Jan.26.09.38.52.1993.14618@presto.ig.com> stuczyns@presto.ig.com (Martin Stuczynski) writes:
- >
- > Can I deduct medical/dental expenses (not covered by insurance) from my
- >taxable income?
-
- If more than @7% and you itemize. See Schedule A.
-
- Some companies allow employees to particpate in a pretax medical deduction
- plan. You can set aside a certain amount in a reserve to pay for costs.
- The reserve is not taxed, so in may case I save 45%.
- However, any surplus in the reserve cannot be given to the employee, nor
- transferred in future years in my company.
- I use this to pay for medical and dental insurance. If I was smarter, I'd
- also set aside my average yearly dental costs too. If one has
- periodic medical costs (e.g. sick children) or anticipates future
- expenses (e.g pregnancy, elective procedures) then one can set aside
- that too. We can alter the deduction rate once a year in our plan.
-