Sep 24, 2019 9:15:00 AM
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a private letter ruling (Letter) regarding whether the price of a DNA collection kit – specifically services and reports related to a person’s health that are generated from analyzing the collected DNA – qualify as Section 213(d) medical care expenses.
Health services such as genotyping are medical care under Section 213(d) while reports that provide general information are not medical care. The IRS concluded that the DNA collection kit’s price must be allocated between health services that are medical care, such as genotyping, and the non-medical services, such as reports that provide general or ancestry information.