MED 1 and claiming for travel expenses

Hi All

I've rang the tax office but they said that this can be claimed on a case by case basis. My son has Autism and I claim incapacitated tax credits for him. I asked if we could claim mileage for attending his appointments, we have blocks of OT, Psychology, Speech and Language etc. Its at a clinic 30 miles away. I took this from the website. Any thoughts????

My child has a life threatening illness or permanent disability and attends hospital on a regular basis. I have large travel expenses and pay car parking fees, phone and accommodation costs. Can I claim tax relief on any of these expenses?
Apart from normal health related expenditure, tax relief is also available for other expenditure incurred in respect of children with life threatening illnesses (including child oncology patients) and children with permanent disabilities who require constant or regular hospital care. Constant or regular hospital care does not necessarily mean being permanently in hospital. However, it does imply regular hospital attendance or supervision appropriate to the serious illness.

The qualifying items of expenditure are -

Travel

The following qualifies for relief -

1. the cost incurred in transporting (unlimited journeys) the child and accompanying parents or guardians to and from hospital
2. the cost incurred by the parents or guardians of the child in visiting the hospital when the child is an 'inpatient' where such trips are shown to be essential to the treatment of the child.

Hi Janeymary,
Was in a similar type of situation. I have always listed out my journeys dates/mileage and submitted them on a seperate sheet to the Med 1.
Although my son is now an adult and able to attend appointments himself revenue have always accepted my claim no questions asked. I would assume they could see like yourself that we were getting incapacitated tax credit. Fill out Med 1 and write please find attached sheet listing out visits etc and I would think all will be ok.
Good luck. Derek

+1 Same as that DCD.

Thanks a million, can I claim for the past four years even though Id already claimed my other medical expenses like OT, GP etc etc ?