{"id":3571,"date":"2017-08-17T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:51:43","slug":"deductible-sex-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Deductible Sex Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jenner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3572\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jenner-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"jenner\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jenner-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jenner.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One exception to deducting medical expenses for changing one;s appearance is that taxpayers have been allowed a deduction for a sex change operation.<\/p>\n<p>The taxpayer in the O&#8217;Donnabhain case was diagnosed with a gender-identity disorder because he felt he was a woman trapped in a male body. The taxpayer tried to deduct $22,000 in out of pocket medical expenses for various surgeries, including hormone therapy, breast augmentation, and sexual reassignment surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Court ruled that the taxpayer was able to deduct $14,500 as a qualified medical tax deduction because they felt the surgeries and hormone therapy promoted the proper function of the body or prevented or treated an illness or disease.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Tax Court disallowed the cost of the breast augmentation surgery because they felt that it was strictly for improving the taxpayer&#8217;s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>If you are seeking help with some tax issues, give us a call at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at www.Hoorfarlaw.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One exception to deducting medical expenses for changing one;s appearance is that taxpayers have been allowed a deduction for a sex change operation. The taxpayer in the O&#8217;Donnabhain case was diagnosed with a gender-identity disorder because he felt he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,1020,776,348,693,1015,732,1017,139,131],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-attorney","tag-deductible-sex-change","tag-down-town-lees-summit","tag-law-office-of-camron-hoorfar","tag-lawyer","tag-lees-summit-attorney","tag-loch","tag-missouri-attorney","tag-tax-tips","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}