Let us ask ourselves, in this article: “how much can you download from medical expenses?”. Well, they give you the right to get one fiscal detraction 19%, if included in the tax return. The deductible medical expenses also include medicines purchased in pharmacies. However, there are specific conditions under which we will be able to discharge the costs of medicines. First of all, the deduction concerns only the amount exceeding the deductible of 129.11 euros. What does it mean?
To give a clarifying example: if 500 euros of medicines are spent in a year, you will be entitled to a 19% deduction not on 500 euros but on 370.89 euros (sum given by the difference between 500 and 129.11 euros of the deductible) . Therefore, if the total expense is less than the indicated deductible, you will not be entitled to the deduction. Furthermore, a second condition is that the receipt has certain characteristics, that is, it carries:
1) the nature of the product purchased (if it is a drug, parapharmaceutical, etc.);
2) the quantity of products purchased; 3) the alphanumeric code identifying the quality of the drug, shown on the package; 4) the tax code of the person benefiting from the deduction.
For which types of drugs the deduction is possible
The deduction is obtainable only for those products classified as drugs or medicines. Homeopathic medicines, or those of galenic preparation, that is made in pharmacies on the basis of a recipe, are also qualified as such. Here too, however, for the purposes of deductibility, the nature of the drug must be specified. On the other hand, food supplements and parapharmaceuticals, such as ointments, eye drops, etc. are excluded from the deductibility. Once it is clear how much and what to unload medical expenses, it is necessary to specify how.
Well, the documents to be attached to the tax return, for the purposes of deductibility, are:
1) what talking receipt, containing the above information;
2) the invoice or sales receipt for food for special medical purposes, or the integration on the expense document of the tax code and the attestation showing the nature, quality and quantity of the product sold. In particular, the drugs that give the right to the deduction, must be reported in part E of the tax return, under the item: health expenses. Furthermore, it is also possible to deduct medicines purchased for family members, even if they are not fiscally dependent. For family members, in this case, we mean: spouse, sires and daughter-in-law, children, in-laws, descendants of children, brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents.
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