Susan Collins: Senate tax bill will include bigger medical expense deduction

Published December 1, 2017 7:17pm ET



The Senate’s tax reform bill would make it easier for people to deduct medical expenses after a last-minute addition pushed by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

A taxpayer currently can deduct medical expenses that reach 10 percent of their gross income. Under the change to the Senate bill pushed by Collins, the deduction threshold would lower to 7.5 percent.

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