Ad Free CAclubindia and Daily Updates on your Mobile. Subscribe Now!

Medical reimbursement - bills

Mihir (Wealth Manager) (5293 Points)

03 March 2014

Reimbursement of medical expenses incurred by the employee for self or spouse or children or dependent parents is exempt upto Rs. 15,000/- pa.

What kind of medical bills have to be submitted?

Is normal cash memo with name, date, product descripttion and amount is sufficient OR a proper store invoice has to be submitted to the employer?

Thanks.

Reply
Follow
Share

3 Replies

Saurabh Anokhchand Jain (Chartered Accountant) (1043 Points)
Replied 03 March 2014

To claim an exemption for medical expenses up to Rs15,000, as per section 17(2), some conditions should be satisfied:

* The expenses must have been incurred by the employee on his medical treatment or for his family members.

* Such expenses should have been reimbursed by the employer. If the employer does not reimburse such expenses, then they shall never form part of the salary and hence no exemption can be claimed from salary income.

Medical allowance is not the same as reimbursement of expenditure towards medical treatment and the benefit of section 17(2) is available only in case of reimbursement of expenditure by the employer

I think norwal cash memo is sufficent for claiming exemption.

1 Like

Upgrade to CAclubindia Pro. Subscribe Now!

CA Saroj Kumar (Keen to learn something new every moments) (2588 Points)
Replied 03 March 2014

As per my practical expreience in While Audting of Public comapnies

For claiming medical reimbursement the Employee's submitting the all details of Medical expenditure like

Doctor Fees(Given during the checkup)
Medicin purchase bills
Ant test have have been taken by the patient.
Or any pther type of expendses incurred for patient in realtion to medicin or checkup.
All the expenditure should be solely incurred for above purpose.