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Nursing home fees

  • 13-07-2019 8:10pm
    #1
    Geminijosa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    Hi guys,
    Not sure if this has been asked before, but I've searched and can't find the right answer. My dad has been in a Nursing home for the past 3 years. I collect his pension (having been given a letter from his doctor when he developed dimentia) and I in turn pay for his nursing home care (minus the fair deal).
    Can I claim the tax on this payment? The nursing home payment is in my name(i.e billed to me), and I pay tax at work, but it's actually his money that pays for his fees.

    I'm just a little confused as to whether I should be claiming the tax back (I haven't to date) to recoup some money towards his other expenses (i.e clothing, footwear, etc).

    He no longer has a bank account, as it was closed down when he was diagnosed with dimentia, and by the time his dimentia was diagnosed, it was too late for me to be granted his power of attorney.

    Thanks in advance for any advice.


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  • #2
    relax carry on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    cal33 wrote: »
    Hi guys,
    Not sure if this has been asked before, but I've searched and can't find the right answer. My dad has been in a Nursing home for the past 3 years. I collect his pension (having been given a letter from his doctor when he developed dimentia) and I in turn pay for his nursing home care (minus the fair deal).
    Can I claim the tax on this payment? The nursing home payment is in my name(i.e billed to me), and I pay tax at work, but it's actually his money that pays for his fees.

    I'm just a little confused as to whether I should be claiming the tax back (I haven't to date) to recoup some money towards his other expenses (i.e clothing, footwear, etc).

    He no longer has a bank account, as it was closed down when he was diagnosed with dimentia, and by the time his dimentia was diagnosed, it was too late for me to be granted his power of attorney.

    Thanks in advance for any advice.

    As you haven't incurred the expense,you can't claim tax relief on it. If any tax relief is due it would be claimable by your father.


  • #3
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    relax carry on wrote: »
    As you haven't incurred the expense,you can't claim tax relief on it. If any tax relief is due it would be claimable by your father.

    So the tax treatment of Nursing Home Expenses is different from normal health care expenses, ie they can only be reclaimed by the beneficiary?

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  • #4
    relax carry on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    So the tax treatment of Nursing Home Expenses is different from normal health care expenses, ie they can only be reclaimed by the beneficiary?

    Per the OP, the money paying for the fees is the OP's father's not his. If the op was paying out of his own funds, then relief would be due for the OP.

    https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/health-and-age/health-expenses/nursing-home-and-additional-nursing-care-expenses.aspx


  • #5
    phormium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,395 ✭✭✭phormium


    So basically OP pay for your father's care from your own bank account and claim the tax relief on it and use his own money to pay for any extras like you have documented that you incur on his behalf.

    If your father has sufficient taxable income he can claim the tax relief or I presume you can submit the return on his behalf and claim it and it will come back to him.


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