21 May 2011

Section 80DD - Payment towards expenditure for medical treatment


Eligibility:

Deduction is available in case of any expenditure incurred by an individual for the medical 

treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant of the individual who has a 

disability. For this purpose - dependants would include his spouse, children, parents, brothers and 

sisters.

A person with severe disability means a person who has eighty per cent or more of one or more of 

the disabilities as mentioned in the footnote below.

Amount of deduction:

The deduction is available to the extent of least of the following:

   i. Rs. 50,000 (75,000 in case of a person with severe disability); or

   ii. Actual expenditure incurred.

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