Enter your travel expenses for medical treatment the same way you enter your medical expenses.
Before beginning, make sure you've entered all your income information into TurboTax. TurboTax will use these details to automatically calculate the minimum medical expenses you need to enter and determine your eligibility for claiming a deduction.
Keep all your receipts for at least six years in case the CRA asks to see them. Here’s how to enter medical expenses in TurboTax:
Instructions for TurboTax Online
- Select Find from the TurboTax menu
- Enter medical expenses in the Find window
- Select Medical Expenses Profile from the list of results
- Select Go. The Your Medical Profile step appears
- Select all checkboxes that apply, then select Continue
- The Medical Expenses step appears. TurboTax will display the minimum amount of eligible medical expenses required to generate a tax benefit
If the eligible medical expenses are less than the minimum amount displayed by TurboTax, select Done, as there aren't enough expenses to generate a tax credit. Otherwise, select Enter New Medical Expense, and the Medical Expenses Receipt step appears.
Instructions for TurboTax CD/Download
In Forms view
Input eligible receipts, either individually or in a single amount, directly in the Medical Expense form, and then complete either (or both) the:
- Dependent Information worksheet
- Medical Expense worksheet
In EasyStep view
- Select Find from the TurboTax menu
- Enter medical in the Find window
- Select Medical expenses profile from the list of results, then Go
- Select all the checkboxes that apply on the Your medical profile step, then select Continue
- The Medical expenses step appears. TurboTax will display the minimum amount of eligible medical expenses required to generate a tax benefit
If the eligible medical expenses are less than the minimum amount displayed by TurboTax, select Done, as there aren't enough expenses to generate a tax credit. Otherwise, select Enter Expenses on return, and the Tax return: Medical Expenses step appears.
When entering a single entry of the total amount of medical receipts
- Fill out the form once by entering the total amount of all medical receipts
- Select Done
- Make sure the date entered is in the same tax year as your return
- The Medical expense summary step appears. Review your information, and if more needs to be added, repeat the above steps. Once completed, select Done With Medical Expenses