Spending for your own health can be made under certain circumstances in the tax return. Who wants to save taxes, to raise, therefore, the best all receipts from the pharmacy carefully. The German pharmacists Association (DAV) in a press release to your attention.
In the case of the income tax return for the year 2018, the to 31. July 2019 must be returned, can private expenditure for pharmaceuticals according to § 33 of the income tax act as "Exceptional Belastungen" be asserted. In addition to the legal co-payment of five to ten euros per prescription drug also prescription medicines will not be considered, unless the insurance company takes over the costs. The medical necessity can be proven by the from your doctor Green recipe – similar to the pink recipe for prescription drugs on health insurance costs.
"Medically necessary expenses for the own health can be made in the tax return. This is good news for many patients, the drugs from the pharmacy benötigen", Groeneveld, patient, officer of the DAV, says Berend. "Although a load limit and an individual apply in the assessment of costs in the case of the recognition of the disease. But it can be worthwhile, nevertheless, to report all spending in the pharmacy to the tax office."
As evidence, the stamped green recipe, as well as the payment receipt for the pink recipe serve. To provide this evidence for the entire year 2018, support many of the pharmacies to their clients. Groeneveld more: "Who has not collected his receipts in the previous year, you can often count on the help of his regular pharmacy. For a holder of a customer card can be subsequently printed a one-year overview.”
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