We paid about $14,000 at a rehab center after medicare stopped paying and then had home health aides thru an agency after he came home. Can this cost be reported on his tax return as a medical expense? He is 93, obviously retired, and only has medicare as his health insurance.
I'm wondering if he could get a return as a result of this expense.
•23.5 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes
•14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations
I pay two ladies who rotate staying with my mom during the day. I have companion/caretaker agreements with both of them and treat them as self employed individuals as per IRS link above regarding statutory nonemployees, part of which states, "Companion sitters. Companion sitters are individuals who furnish personal attendance, companionship, or household care services to children or to individuals who are elderly or disabled. A person engaged in the trade or business of putting the sitters in touch with individuals who wish to employ them (that is, a companion sitting placement service) will not be treated as the employer of the sitters if that person does not receive or pay the salary or wages of the sitters and is compensated by the sitters or the persons who employ them on a fee basis. Companion sitters who are not employees of a companion sitting placement service are generally treated as self-employed for all federal tax purposes. "