What percent of my income is required in order to deduct medical expenses?

[Searcy-Swen]

If you itemized, it used to be about 7 1/2 % of your total income was needed before medical expenses could be deducted.

[Heather14]

To claim the medical expenses deduction, you must itemize your deductions. The IRS allows you to deduct qualified medical expenses that exceed 10% of your adjusted gross income for the year. Your adjusted gross income (AGI) is your taxable income minus any adjustments to income such as deductions, contributions to a traditional IRA and student loan interest. You can visit the following TurboTax link for more information on claiming medical expenses on your tax return: TurboTax Medical Expesnes Deductions Information

[justproblems]

The IRS website tells me that I can deduct qualified medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of the adjusted gross income for the year.  How can I get the turbo tax program to correct that from 10% to 7.5%?  If that is done, my itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction.

[BillM223]

The TurboTax programs has used 7.5% ever since this was changed in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act in late 2017. Do you have some reason to think otherwise?

Do you have the CD/download software or have you paid for your Online product? If so, then you can go look for the Medical Expenses Worksheet to see what TurboTax did.

@justproblems