"You can include the medical and dental insurance premiums. You cannot include the health care FSA. However, you can include medical expenses that were paid from your health care FSA. (You cannot include those expenses in the medical expenses on your federal tax return.)"
Can someone confirm that this information is still accurate? (3 years later, law might have changed...)
Also, if possible, some authoritative document or source?
I just talked to someone at the NJ department of taxation. I asked him whether I could count (as "medical expenses" for NJ tax deduction) medical expenses which I paid and then was reimbursed for from my (federal employee) FSA. He thought the answer was no, but seemed unsure, and seemed to be basing this on the fact that the NJ-1040 instructions only mention being able to deduct "unreimbursed medical expenses".
Elsewhere, the NJ department of taxation says:
"Medical Expenses
You can deduct from your gross income certain medical expenses that you paid during the year for yourself, your spouse or domestic partner, and your dependents. However, you cannot deduct expenses for which you were reimbursed. ..."
That seems to agree with the guy saying I can't deduct those expenses. However, I am *GUESSING* this just refers to reimbursement by insurance, etc., not from my own pre-tax money. That said, I'd much prefer to see something authoritative rather than making a large deduction based on a guess.
TIA for any help
