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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Petition care home fees should be tax deductible

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Where an elderly person has to go into residential care, the care home fees should be allowed as a tax deductible expense against that person's monthly income (or joint income with the spouse) , such as from pensions and insurance policies taken out to provide income in old age.

This petition closed early because of a General Election

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