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Health Insurance deduction claimed in Business, but also requested in Personal Medical Deductions?

First year I've ever had so many medical expenses that I qualified to include them in the Personal Deductions & Credits section. In addition to entering the costs of all my medical bills, it also asked to include my health insurance premiums paid. Fine, except that I had already entered that same amount in my Self Employment Health Insurance Expenses.  

 

Why does it feel like I'm double dipping on this? I was expecting a flag or notice alerting me I can only claim this expense once, but TurboTax is ignoring the Business entry and asking me to claim it again in personal deductions. Not complaining if this is a legit loophole resulting in a bigger refund, but I don't want to learn later it's a software oversight that will trigger an audit.

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AnnetteB6
Employee Tax Expert

Health Insurance deduction claimed in Business, but also requested in Personal Medical Deductions?

If you have already entered your health insurance premiums as part of your self-employed health insurance expense, then you would be double-dipping by including it again as a personal medical expense.

 

The information onscreen in the personal medical expense entries of your return tells you that you should not include self-employed health insurance.

 

See the screenshot below for reference:

 

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