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How about if we paid for a medical expense for a parent? Can we include that as a medical expense if we don't claim them as a dependent?

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January 22, 2021
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You can claim medical expenses for a parent if that parent is your dependent or cannot be your dependent only because:

1.He or she received gross income of $4,300 or more in 2020;
2.He or she filed a joint return for 2020; or
3.You, or your spouse if filing jointly, could be claimed as a dependent on someone else's 2020 return.

See IRS Pub 502:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p502.pdf

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