medical expenses income taxes claim
medical expenses income taxes claim
hey all,
more of a rant than anything, however curious if anyone has had a similar experience.
I included a claim for medical expenses on my wife's tax return for 2015 which included several things (not relevant to this) and mileage for my trips back and forth to radiation. As a bit of background, I'm totally a "by the book" type (maybe why this bugs me so much). I required 35 radiation treatments and submitted a claim for the to and back "mileage" accordingly. I like about 45 km away from Princess Margaret so I'm eligible to claim these expenses so I thought!
After initially being asked for support for our medical claim this summer, we just received a letter notifying us that our mileage claim has been pro-rated to 21 trips or "the amount of trips we are eligible to claim". The monetary aspect of this adjustment is a couple hundred bucks and not the end of the world to me. It's the fact that I cannot for the life of me find anything that states travel in a year is limited to 21 trips - the CRA auditor must have pulled this number from somewhere? Anyhow I'm calling them to inquire this morning and i'll let the group know (assuming it would be helpful information to others).
Thanks for reading my rant here, really I'm just irked that I tried to do things by the book (and didn't obviously!) and feel like I'm somewhat "under attack" yet again. Such is life sometimes I guess!
more of a rant than anything, however curious if anyone has had a similar experience.
I included a claim for medical expenses on my wife's tax return for 2015 which included several things (not relevant to this) and mileage for my trips back and forth to radiation. As a bit of background, I'm totally a "by the book" type (maybe why this bugs me so much). I required 35 radiation treatments and submitted a claim for the to and back "mileage" accordingly. I like about 45 km away from Princess Margaret so I'm eligible to claim these expenses so I thought!
After initially being asked for support for our medical claim this summer, we just received a letter notifying us that our mileage claim has been pro-rated to 21 trips or "the amount of trips we are eligible to claim". The monetary aspect of this adjustment is a couple hundred bucks and not the end of the world to me. It's the fact that I cannot for the life of me find anything that states travel in a year is limited to 21 trips - the CRA auditor must have pulled this number from somewhere? Anyhow I'm calling them to inquire this morning and i'll let the group know (assuming it would be helpful information to others).
Thanks for reading my rant here, really I'm just irked that I tried to do things by the book (and didn't obviously!) and feel like I'm somewhat "under attack" yet again. Such is life sometimes I guess!
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