{"id":9363,"date":"2021-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/irs-covid-19-ppe-tax-deductible\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:10:09","slug":"irs-covid-19-ppe-tax-deductible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/irs-covid-19-ppe-tax-deductible\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS: COVID-19 PPE Tax-Deductible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>The government agency says that eligible deductions include PPE bought since Jan. 1, 2020<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, March 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Faces masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes are among the types of COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) that Americans can deduct as a medical expense when filing taxes this year, the Internal Revenue Service says.<\/p>\n<p>Deductions are allowed for purchases of COVID-19 PPE for use by an individual taxpayer, their spouse, or dependents that are not covered by insurance if total medical expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible deductions include PPE bought since Jan. 1, 2020, according to the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that purchases of PPE are eligible to be paid or reimbursed under flexible spending plans and medical savings accounts, but would then not be eligible as a tax deduction, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/masks-ppe-hand-sanitizer-tax-deductible-irs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CBS News<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government agency says that eligible deductions include PPE bought since Jan. 1, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,506],"tags":[228,497],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}