Section 80D

Section 80D

Deduction in respect of Health Insurance Premium

Assessee being individual or HUF can take deduction on which such assessee incurred health insurance premium if any, while computing income tax. Such deduction is available on if such amount is paid through any mode other than cash.

Applicability:

1. The whole of the amount paid to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the health of the assessee or his family or any contribution made to the Central Government Health Scheme or such other Scheme as may be notified by the Central Government in this behalf or any payment made on account of preventive health check-up of the assessee or his family as does not exceed in the aggregate 20,000 Rs; and
2. The whole of the amount paid to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the health of the parent or parents of the assessee or any payment made on account of preventive health check-up of the parent or parents of the assessee as does not exceed in the aggregate 20,000 Rs;
3. The whole of the amount paid on account of medical expenditure incurred on the health of the assessee or any member of his family as does not exceed in the aggregate 50,000 Rs;
4. The whole of the amount paid on account of medical expenditure incurred on the health of any parent of the assessee, as does not exceed in the aggregate fifty thousand rupees.

Provided that the amount referred to in clause (3) or clause (4) is paid in respect of a senior citizen and no amount has been paid to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the health of such person.

In case one of the parents is a senior citizen and another is a very senior citizen or both of them are very senior citizens, the aggregate of deduction, in respect of payment of medical insurance premium and medical expenditure incurred, as specified in clause (1) and (2) above can not exceed 30,000 Rs.

Deduction allowed for aggregate of preventive health checkup expenditure mentioned in clause (1) or clause (2) is the maximum of 5,000 Rs.

Where the assessee is a Hindu undivided family, the sum referred to in sub-section (1), shall be the aggregate of the following, namely:—

• whole of the amount paid to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the health of any member of that Hindu undivided family as does not exceed in the aggregate twenty-five thousand rupees and
• the whole of the amount paid on account of medical expenditure incurred on the health of any member of the Hindu undivided family as does not exceed in the aggregate fifty thousand rupees.

Budget 2018 has introduced a new provision for claiming a deduction with regards to single premium health insurance policies. Under the new provision, where a taxpayer has made a lumpsum premium payment in a single year for a policy valid for more than one year, he can claim a deduction equal to the appropriate fraction of the amount, under Section 80D. The appropriate fraction is arrived at, by dividing the lump sum premium paid, by the number of years of the policy. However, this would again be subject to the limits of Rs.25,000 of Rs.50,000 as the case may be.

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