Write off therapy for a psychiatrist or psychologist

[liquidshadow22]

If you are in private practice as a psychiatrist or psychologist, and you decide to go to get psychotherapy visits from another provider to "enhance your therapy skills". Could you potentially write this off as a business expense?

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[PikminOC]

If you are in private practice as a psychiatrist or psychologist, and you decide to go to get psychotherapy visits from another provider to "enhance your therapy skills". Could you potentially write this off as a business expense?

Ask the irs

 

[TexasPhysician]

Sounds legit to me.

 

[Sushirolls]

Doubt it.
If we can't write off unpaid patient bills, or probono services this won't count either.

 

[Merovinge]

Doubt it.
If we can't write off unpaid patient bills, or probono services this won't count either.

This is a completely different situation. Unpaid bills can't be written off because you never collected the money = already not paying taxes on it. Receiving therapy supervision sounds like a very legitimate business expense that could be treated like any other legitimate business expense. That said your trusty CPA should be the final word on any questions re: taxes.

 

[whopper]

I doubt it too but this is an IRS/accountant question.

 

[romanticscience]

If you are in private practice as a psychiatrist or psychologist, and you decide to go to get psychotherapy visits from another provider to "enhance your therapy skills". Could you potentially write this off as a business expense?

I remember this:

Psychoanalysis Deductible As A Business Expense - Not As A Medical Expense

Psychoanalysis Deductible As A Business Expense – Not As A Medical Expense The IRS acquiesced to a Tax Court decision (Jose P. Iglesias (1981) 76 TC 1060,acq. 1981-47 IRB-5) that allowed a physician who underwent psychoanalysis while a resident in psychiatry to deduct the cost as a business...

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[michaelrack]

I would only try this if I gave a 1099 to the psychotherapist