Deduct travel expenses to the doctor
You can deduct travel expenses to the doctor. Visits to the doctor are always associated with costs and if you are no longer on your feet, you have the option of deducting these expenses for tax purposes
What you need:
- Quarterly receipts
- Taxi receipts
Pay only 1% of the cost
- If you have a chronic illness, you can be specially classified by your health insurance company with an application and only need to pay only 1% of your gross income per year. At the end of each year you will then receive an invoice for the total costs to be paid. If you receive this invoice by December 30th of the year, you will receive from 01. January of the new year immediately your exemption from the copayment. Even if you receive a transport ticket from the doctor, you no longer have to pay the taxi driver any additional payments.
- However, it is often the case that you will only receive a transport ticket in exceptional cases. In most cases, you'll need the ride costs Pay for the visit to the doctor yourself, but very rarely you have hardly any possibility of recovering part of the costs from the doctor.
Simply deduct travel expenses
- Of course, you will need all receipts for your travel expenses. You can obtain these from your doctor or taxi company and must be kept.
- You can claim these costs in column 68 of your tax return. The two columns 68 and 69 are particularly useful for listing additional costs from your normal expenses.
- The combined costs from lines 68 and 69 are then entered in line 70. Since your employer does not reimburse you for any costs in this regard, you can claim these costs for tax purposes.
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By the way / a note: With some taxi companies you also have the option of arranging a regular transport service in advance. Then you will regularly receive a monthly list of the journeys made by the taxi company and you will already have the individual journeys costs saved up.
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