Dick Adams wrote:
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Your medical deductions are still allowed under AMT, but with a higher
10%-of-AGI threshhold instead of 7.5%.

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If your employer allows it...

And if you are *not* gainfully employed (or even if you are), you can
have a Health Savings Account (HSA), which is almost as good, taxwise.

-Mark Bole

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NadCixelsyd <nadcixelsyd[at]aol.com> wrote:

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My favorite answer: It depends.

The general rule is NO.
There are exceptions which have been mentioned in other
responses.

The point I want to make is that allowed medical expenses
are deductible less 7.5% of your adjested gross income.
So if your AGI is $120,000, you have to have $9,000 in
allowed medical espenses before it's worth discussing.
And then you have to be concerned about the notorious
Alternative Minimum Tax wiping out your Schedule A
deductions.

If you are gainfully employed (as is the woman who
supports me), you should have a Flexible Spending Account
for Health Care expenses. So if a tummy tuck or a face
lift is an allowable deduction for you, it's should be
a better tax planning strategy to get it reimbursed from
there than to risk losing the deduction to AMT.

Dick

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kamlet[at]panix.com (Arthur Kamlet) wrote:

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It seems to me that male patern baldness is a congenital abnormality.
It's just not abnormal enough, I suppose.

Stu

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"Arthur Kamlet" <kamlet[at]panix.com> wrote in message
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In other words, some other specific event or thing must have happened in
order to make it medically necessary or [medically] desired -i.e. it is not
entirely cosmetic.

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In article <70933b81-35d9-40d4-a6d7-ac913b500406[at]c1g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> ,
NadCixelsyd <nadcixelsyd[at]aol.com> wrote:
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The code does not permit deductions for "Unnecesary Cosmetic Surgery."


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You generally cannot include in medical expenses the
amount you pay for procedures such as face
lifts, hair transplants, hair removal (electrolysis),
and liposuction.

You can include in medical expenses the amount you pay
for cosmetic surgery if it is necessary to improve a
deformity arising from, or directly related to, a congenital
abnormality, a personal injury resulting from an accident or
trauma, or a disfiguring disease.
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Can one deduct the cost of a face lift or tummy tuck?

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