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A little-known tax regulation allows many Americans to write abortions off on their taxes. These Congressmen are asking the Treasury Department to put an end to it.
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Treasury Department must take action to ensure that the expense of an abortion cannot be deducted from federal income taxes, more than 100 members of Congress wrote Wednesday in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
“Abortion is not healthcare,” declares the Senate Pro-Life Caucus letter, led by Republican Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Warren Davidson of Ohio. “Any procedure for which a successful outcome depends on the death of a living human being, born or unborn, cannot be considered health care.”
“Under Rev. Rul. 73-201 (1973) the IRS wrongly holds that amounts paid for any legal abortion are tax-deductible as ‘medical care’ under §213(d)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code - ‘for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body’ - and even prominently lists them as such in its Publication 502,” the letter explains. “This holding, in turn, creates tax breaks for abortions through the medical expenses deduction as well as through health flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, and other tax-preferred health accounts and tax breaks that incorporate §213(d)’s definition of ‘medical care.’”
To correct this situation, the group calls on Mnuchin to “take swift action to issue new regulations” ensuring that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does “not consider abortions (except when the mother’s life is physically endangered) to be medical care,” and to “not treat premiums for health insurance that covers such abortions as medical care, unless in compliance with the law’s separate accounting requirements for coverage of non-medical care.”
The letter explains, “Under longstanding IRS regulations, [tax] deductions for medical care under §213 must ‘be confined strictly to expenses incurred primarily for the prevention or alleviation of a physical or mental defect or illness.’”
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Did you know many abortions are tax-deductible? These politicians hope to fix that
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Treasury Department must take action to ensure that the expense of an abortion cannot be deducted from federal income taxes, more than 100 members of Congress wrote Wednesday in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
“Abortion is not healthcare,” declares the Senate Pro-Life Caucus letter, led by Republican Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Warren Davidson of Ohio. “Any procedure for which a successful outcome depends on the death of a living human being, born or unborn, cannot be considered health care.”
“Under Rev. Rul. 73-201 (1973) the IRS wrongly holds that amounts paid for any legal abortion are tax-deductible as ‘medical care’ under §213(d)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code - ‘for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body’ - and even prominently lists them as such in its Publication 502,” the letter explains. “This holding, in turn, creates tax breaks for abortions through the medical expenses deduction as well as through health flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, and other tax-preferred health accounts and tax breaks that incorporate §213(d)’s definition of ‘medical care.’”
To correct this situation, the group calls on Mnuchin to “take swift action to issue new regulations” ensuring that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does “not consider abortions (except when the mother’s life is physically endangered) to be medical care,” and to “not treat premiums for health insurance that covers such abortions as medical care, unless in compliance with the law’s separate accounting requirements for coverage of non-medical care.”
The letter explains, “Under longstanding IRS regulations, [tax] deductions for medical care under §213 must ‘be confined strictly to expenses incurred primarily for the prevention or alleviation of a physical or mental defect or illness.’”
Continued below.
Did you know many abortions are tax-deductible? These politicians hope to fix that
