Long-Term Care Revisited

September 23rd, 2024 at 3:35 PM

Long-term care costs can be substantial, and neither Medicare nor Medicaid provide comprehensive coverage for most people. Long-term care insurance can help protect your finances, and there may be ways to deduct the premiums, depending on your business structure.

Here are four key points to consider:

1. C corporations can provide long-term care insurance as a fully deductible, tax-free benefit to owners.
2. Sole proprietors or single-member LLCs with a spouse as the only employee may be able to deduct 100 percent of the premiums through a Section 105-HRA plan.
3. S corporation owners, partners, and other sole proprietors may be able to deduct premiums subject to age-based limits.
4. If you don’t qualify for business-related deductions, you might deduct premiums as itemized deductions subject to age-based limits and the 7.5 percent floor.

Mark S. Fineberg, CPA