A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a tax deduction for expenses exceeding 5 percent of adjusted gross income incurred in care of certain elderly individuals, to allow physicians and registered professional nurses a tax deduction for the cost of certain goods and services donated by them to elderly individuals, to permit tax-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts to pay certain long-term care expenses or purchase insurance to cover such expenses, and to allow employers to deduct contributions to employee pension plans for the purchase of long-term care insurance for employees.
Elderly Americans' Economic Security Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to permit an income tax deduction to an individual taxpayer for the expenses of certain in-home custodial care (personal, as opposed to medical, care) of the taxpayer's elderly (age 65 or older) parent, grandparent, or dependent.
Limits the deduction to the amount of expenses: (1) exceeding five percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income; and (2) not paid for by insurance or otherwise.
Prohibits the application of other tax credit or tax deduction provisions to amounts subject to a deduction under this Act.
Includes as charitable contributions (and thus tax deductible) certain medical services and goods provided by a physician or registered professional nurse to an individual age 65 or older. Describes criteria for the valuation of such contributions.
Permits tax-free withdrawals from an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity if the entire amount is used within 30 days of its receipt to: (1) pay the individual's long-term care expenses; or (2) purchase insurance covering such expenses.
Revises an IRC definition of "group health plan" to permit as an income tax deduction employer contributions to plans providing long-term care expenses.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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