Claiming medical expenses for 2020

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Can you claim for physiotherapy when claiming back?

Also can you claim for a visit to a periodontist?
Can you claim for ordinary dental visits?

 

[Sue Ellen]

See here.

This may help also.

Medical expenses​

You can claim tax relief on medical expenses you pay for yourself and for any other person. You can claim relief only if you cannot recover the expenses from any other source. You cannot claim tax relief for amounts already received or due to be received from:

• A public or local authority, for example, the HSE (Health Service Authority)
• An insurance policy
• Any other source, for example, compensation

You can claim tax relief on:

• Costs of doctors and consultants fees
• Items or treatments prescribed by a doctor or consultant
• Maintenance or treatment in a hospital, treatment facility (such as a clinic) or a [broken link removed]
• Cost of employing a qualified nurse at home
• Costs of speech and language therapy carried out by a speech and language therapist for a qualifying child
• Transport by ambulance
• Costs of educational psychological assessments carried out by an educational psychologist for a qualifying child
• Treatment from a psychologist or psychotherapist
• Accupuncture
• Certain items of expenditure for a child suffering from a serious life threatening illness
• Kidney patients' expenses (up to a maximum amount depending on whether the patient uses hospital dialysis, home dialysis or CAPD)
• Specialised dental treatment
• Routine maternity care
• In-vitro fertilisation

The following, where prescribed by a doctor, also qualify for medical expenses relief:

• Drugs and medicines
• Diagnostic procedures
• Orthoptic or similar treatment (for example, treatments for squints and eye movement disorders)
• Hearing aids
• Orthopaedic bed or chair
• Wheelchair or wheelchair lift (no relief is due for alteration to the building to facilitate a lift)
• Glucometer machine for a diabetic
• Engaging a qualified nurse in the case of a serious illness
• Physiotherapy, chiropody/podiatry services or similar treatment
• Cost of a computer where there is medical evidence that it is necessary to help a person with a severe disability to communicate
• Cost of gluten-free food for coeliacs and diabetic products for diabetics. As these medical conditions are generally ongoing, a letter (instead of prescriptions) from a doctor stating that the individual is a coeliac sufferer or diabetic is acceptable. Receipts from supermarkets in addition to receipts from chemists are acceptable.

Note: These lists are not exhaustive. Revenue add to the list of treatments and appliances that you can get tax relief on from time to time. If you are undergoing a new procedure or availing of a new appliance, it is worth checking whether you can claim tax relief. For more information, see the Revenue website.

You cannot claim relief for cosmetic surgery costs, unless you need the surgery as a result of a congenital abnormality, personal injury or disease.

 

[huskerdu]

I was audited a few years ago and I was specifically asked for evidence that the physiotherapy was on the advice of a GP . If this could not be produced , the tax credit for these expenses would be denied