topic I paid health insurance premiums for myself and my wife and want to deduct these and the Long Term Care Premiums as well... how do i enter these expenses in Deductions & credits https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/i-paid-health-insurance-premiums-for-myself-and-my-wife-and-want-to-deduct-these-and-the-long-term/01/172530#M23070 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:23:29 GMT clar57dav 2019-06-01T15:23:29Z I paid health insurance premiums for myself and my wife and want to deduct these and the Long Term Care Premiums as well... how do i enter these expenses https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/i-paid-health-insurance-premiums-for-myself-and-my-wife-and-want-to-deduct-these-and-the-long-term/01/172530#M23070 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:23:29 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/i-paid-health-insurance-premiums-for-myself-and-my-wife-and-want-to-deduct-these-and-the-long-term/01/172530#M23070 clar57dav 2019-06-01T15:23:29Z Health insurance premiums and Long Term Care Premiums are... https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/health-insurance-premiums-and-long-term-care-premiums-are/01/172540#M23072 <P>Health insurance premiums and Long Term Care Premiums are deducted as an itemized deduction on Schedule A&nbsp;to the extent that they, along with other unreimbursed medical expenses exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income.&nbsp;&nbsp;Schedule A is not available in TurboTax Free Edition you will have to purchase TurboTax Deluxe if you want to itemize your deductions.</P><P>The standard deduction for married filing jointly for 2018 is $24,000 if your itemized deductions do not exceede&nbsp;this amount then there is no tax benefit to itemizing your deductions.</P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:23:31 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/health-insurance-premiums-and-long-term-care-premiums-are/01/172540#M23072 Leonard 2019-06-01T15:23:31Z