Music Therapy Pros
Music Therapy can be Tax Deductible
- Music Therapy Pros provides 15-minute paid consultations to provide clients and families with recommendations on how they can request the client's primary care physician issue a medical referral for music therapy services, which would make the music therapy services tax deductible as based on the information below.
- Music Therapy Services, Tax Deductibility:
Based on the definition of deductible medical expenses associated with Long Term Care, the cost of music therapy would be deductible.
The excerpt below is from the IRS Publication 502 Medical and Dental Expenses:
Qualified Long-Term Care Services are necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, curing, treating, mitigating, rehabilitative services, and maintenance and personal care services (defined later) that are:
1. Required by a chronically ill individual, and
2. Provided pursuant to a plan of care prescribed by a licensed health care practitioner
MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-502
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p502#en_US_2018_publink1000178975