Originally Posted by
lzajmom
As a once-upon-a-time tax accountant, I'd be very surprised if you could find any legal claim to a medical deduction here. Not saying that a medical deduction should or shouldn't be permissible, but just that I don't think one is.
Agreed. I wouldn't even try it without being able to display a prescription for it (similar to physical therapy).
Also ... in reaction to an earlier comment ... beware of the "no one's come knocking at my door" argument. I'm very familiar with a case in my own family where no one came knocking at the door for 15 years -- and then they did (both federal and state). At that point the interest and penalties you're assessed will likely dwarf the original amount and you won't get anything like a sympathetic review of the case. But we all work on the basis of our own risk/benefit assessment.
Gary Merrill
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