Health Club membership Fees

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Being a diabetic, can you count membership fees off on your taxes? Anyone out

there have an answer?

Thanks,

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[Guest guest]

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> Being a diabetic, can you count membership fees off on your taxes? Anyone

> out there have an answer?

I'm not a tax expert. You should probably talk to one as I'm sure there are

as many ways to 'spin' this as not. Personally, I feel that the true answer

is no. There is nothing 'special' about being diabetic that would require

you to join a health club. There is also nothing 'special' about being

diabetic that would make joining a health club any more important than it is

to someone who is not diabetic. There is also nothing about a health club

that would make you any healthier than simply picking up $20 worth of

weights and walking for an hour a day.

Mike

[Guest guest]

I would agree on a common sense basis with your comment " There is also

nothing about a health club that would make you any healthier than

simply picking up $20 worth of weights and walking for an hour a day. "

But tax law and common sense constitute an oxymoron.

I have seen air conditioning, the cost of its operation, and its

maintence be tax exempt because a doctor wrote a prescription for it.

Check with a tax person, but I think the critical item is a pre-dated

prescription. If the prescription if written after joining it will be

denied.

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> > Being a diabetic, can you count membership fees off on your taxes?

Anyone

> > out there have an answer?

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>

> I'm not a tax expert. You should probably talk to one as I'm sure

there are

> as many ways to 'spin' this as not. Personally, I feel that the

true answer

> is no. There is nothing 'special' about being diabetic that would

require

> you to join a health club. There is also nothing 'special' about being

> diabetic that would make joining a health club any more important

than it is

> to someone who is not diabetic. There is also nothing about a

health club

> that would make you any healthier than simply picking up $20 worth of

> weights and walking for an hour a day.

>

> Mike

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