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You don't do either of the things that you suggested. The refund that you received is called an itemized deduction recovery. You have to report it as income on your 2018 tax return to the extent that you received a tax benefit for the deduction in 2017. TurboTax will not do the calculation for you to determine how much of the refund has to be reported as income. If subtracting the amount that was refunded would have brought your medical expenses below 7.5% of your 2017 AGI, you don't have to report the full amount of the refund as income. Otherwise you probably do have to report the full amount as income.
If you have to calculate the taxable amount, follow the instructions for itemized deduction recoveries in IRS Publication 525, and enter the taxable amount that you calculated in TurboTax. If the amount is not large and you don't want to bother doing the calculation, you can just treat the full amount as taxable. That is the most likely result anyway.
Here's how to enter itemized deduction recoveries (other than state or local income tax refunds) in TurboTax. These instructions are subject to change since the 2018 TurboTax software is not available yet, but the procedure has been the same for many years.
The taxable amount of the recovery will be reported as "other income" on your tax return with a description that depends on which box you checked for the type of deduction. Exactly what form and line it will appear on is not certain yet, because the IRS is still working on the design of new tax forms for 2018.
You don't do either of the things that you suggested. The refund that you received is called an itemized deduction recovery. You have to report it as income on your 2018 tax return to the extent that you received a tax benefit for the deduction in 2017. TurboTax will not do the calculation for you to determine how much of the refund has to be reported as income. If subtracting the amount that was refunded would have brought your medical expenses below 7.5% of your 2017 AGI, you don't have to report the full amount of the refund as income. Otherwise you probably do have to report the full amount as income.
If you have to calculate the taxable amount, follow the instructions for itemized deduction recoveries in IRS Publication 525, and enter the taxable amount that you calculated in TurboTax. If the amount is not large and you don't want to bother doing the calculation, you can just treat the full amount as taxable. That is the most likely result anyway.
Here's how to enter itemized deduction recoveries (other than state or local income tax refunds) in TurboTax. These instructions are subject to change since the 2018 TurboTax software is not available yet, but the procedure has been the same for many years.
The taxable amount of the recovery will be reported as "other income" on your tax return with a description that depends on which box you checked for the type of deduction. Exactly what form and line it will appear on is not certain yet, because the IRS is still working on the design of new tax forms for 2018.
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