Case:
Last year, Mr. Smith was involved in an automobile accident, severely injuring his legs. As a part of a long-term rehabilitation process, his physician prescribes a daily routine of swimming. Because there is not readily available public facility nearby, Mr. Smith purchases a house with a pool for $175,000. Replacing the pool would cost $20,000. The existing pool increases the fair market value of the house by $8,000. Mr. Smith spends $500 maintaining the pool and $1,800 in other medical expenses. Mr. Smith wants to know the total amount of medical expenses that he may claim in the current year. His AGI is $60,000.
Relevant Tax Law: IRC Sec. 213(a) states that “there shall be allowed as a deduction the expenses paid
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Thus, a capital expenditure which is related only to the sick person and is not related to permanent improvement or betterment of property, if it otherwise qualifies as an expenditure for medical care, shall be deductible; for example, an expenditure for eye glasses, a seeing eye dog, artificial teeth and limbs, a wheel chair, crutches, an inclinator or an air conditioner which is detachable from the property and purchased only for the use of a sick person, etc. Moreover, a capital expenditure for permanent improvement of property may qualify as a medical expense to the extent that the expenditure exceeds the increase in the value of the related property, if the particular expenditure is related directly to medical care. Such a situation could arise, for example, where a taxpayer is advised by a physician to install an elevator in his residence so that the taxpayer's wife who is afflicted with heart disease will not be required to climb stairs. If the cost of installing the elevator is $1,000 and the increase in the value of the residence is determined to be only $700, the difference of $300, which is the amount in excess of the value enhancement, is deductible as a medical expense. If, however, by reason of this expenditure, it is determined that the value of the residence has
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Any personal expenditures not specifically allowed as itemized deductions by the tax law are nondeductible.
In Mason, the taxpayer suffered a severe attack of paralytic poliomyelitis. The cost of installation of a specially designed swimming pool, installed on the advice of a physician to provide hydrotherapeutic treatment for the taxpayer was found by jury to constitute a deductible medical expense and not a nondeductible capital expenditure. The swimming pool in Mason covered an area of thirty by fifteen feet, had a depth of four to six feet, and included a ramp designed to facilitate entry by wheel chair. The jury held for the taxpayer and allowed a deduction of the pool as a medical expense because the design of the pool catered to the taxpayer’s medical needs.
Which of the following is not a required test for the deduction of a business expense?
The capitated managed care agreement with the city allows the hospital to receive $250 per month per family for taking care of the 300 city employees and their families, whether they are sick or not. Utilizing the full cost method, the hospital incurs a profit loss of $51,898,395, meaning that a rate increase of $14,166.22 is required in order to cover the full cost for the year. When applying the differential cost the hospital also incurs a profit loss of $15,119, and a rate increase of $3,949.72 is required in order to cover the differential cost for the year.
Hint: For question one, assume that there are two cost pool; Building $216,000 and everything else $121,000.
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