Yes. If you are itemizing your return and you must make modifications such as widening the door and installing handrails, they can be entered as a medical expense. To get to the place to enter them you will select Deductions and Credits>>Medical Expenses. You can continue through and enter them at the end where it allows you to enter a description and the amount.
Itemized expenses include mortgage interest, gambling losses up to winnings, charitable contributions, state and local taxes up to $10,000, medical expenses in excess of 7.5% of your AGI and casualty and losses in excess of 10% of you AGI with the first $100 not counting towards the loss.
Keep in mind, your health insurance and all medical expenses are only deductible for the amount that is over 7.5% of your AGI. This means if your AGI is $50,000, then the amount that is over $3,750 is deductible.
Then your total itemized expenses would need to be greater than your standard deduction below in order to benefit from your expenses.
Certain improvements made to accommodate a home to your disabled condition, or that of your spouse or your dependents who live with you, don't usually increase the value of the home and the cost can be included in full as medical expenses. These improvements include, but aren't limited to, the following items. • Constructing entrance or exit ramps for your home. • Widening doorways at entrances or exits to your home. • Widening or otherwise modifying hallways and interior doorways. • Installing railings, support bars, or other modifications to bathrooms. • Lowering or modifying kitchen cabinets and equip ment. • Moving or modifying electrical outlets and fixtures. • Installing porch lifts and other forms of lifts (but eleva tors generally add value to the house). • Modifying fire alarms, smoke detectors, and other warning systems. • Modifying stairways. • Adding handrails or grab bars anywhere (whether or not in bathrooms). • Modifying hardware on doors. • Modifying areas in front of entrance and exit door ways. • Grading the ground to provide access to the resi dence. Only reasonable costs to accommodate a home to your disabled condition are considered medical care. Addi tional costs for personal motives, such as for architectural or aesthetic reasons, aren't medical expenses.
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