Tax refund for medical expenses??? Medicare statement

[Just Me]

Just a few questions (sorry to thread crash Mak) -

I am a SAHM and so I don't have an income of my own. Can DH claim my medical expenses on his tax return? I know that when we download it from etax, we can only download the info for ourselves and not for anybody else listed on our statement over the age of 18 - so DH can't download my details and I can't download his. Does that mean he can't claim my medical expenses on his tax return?

I didn't think I had any that I could claim but I had a baby this year and GD so I had quite a few scripts to fill and medical expenses. Also, does the medicare statement operate on the Financial year or the calendar year? For some reason, I always thought it was the calendar year ...

[~me~]

They now run it financial year..due to being able to make claims through tax. Safety Next is calendar year I think?
I am pretty certain you can put your medical expenses against his?

The medical expenses must be for:

you
your spouse, regardless of their income (see the definition of spouse in Special circumstances and glossary)
your children who were under 21 years old (including your adopted children, stepchildren, ex-nuptial children or children of your spouse) regardless of their income
any other child under 21 years old who was not a student, whom you maintained, and whose adjusted taxable income (ATI) for the period you maintained them was less than
the total of $282 + $28.92 for each week you maintained them for the first child under 21 years old, or
the total of $282 + $21.70 for each week you maintained them for any other child under 21 years old who is not a student.

this is direct from the ATO website.

[Just Me]

Ahh, I was getting confused by the safety net with regards to the statement period.

I think I might go and see what receipts I can dig up

Thanks

[Mum2Romone]

With prescriptions , once you hit $300 a year , you get it free through PBS..... the chemist would tell you when you hit the amount and then you just dont pay... dont know if that helps anyone

[melbel]

with prescriptions, as someone said the chemist will have a record....we have two regular chemists we use so we just go and get a print out from them and add it to the total, plus other medicals I get for my diabetes that don't come under any of the above we keep the receipts for (needles and stuff like that). Once we reach $1500 as family we get a rebate for the rest...usually our acountant puts it on the return that will most benefit from the rebate which is usually hubby's...usually we are OOP about $8,000 on medicals per year so the tax rebate is a big help for us!