Ultrasonic toothbrush fifteen would be let's say medical expenses provided by qualified medical practitioners we ultrasonic toothbrush can pop in here and we can see that we have a list here a separate list for medical practitioners and we can go in here and being an.
Alberta resident ultrasonic toothbrush there's something on here that always strikes me as unfortunate and we can see for example depending on the type of medical service that you're getting it may or may not be approved for the province that you are in so an.
Example of this would be if we look at massage in the province of Alberta for example we see registered massage therapists and we can see that Alberta in particular the province in which I happen to reside does not approve services for Massage.
Therapy and this ultrasonic toothbrush would stand to how the professional licensing and body in that province does this we see in fact most provinces massage therapy would not be covered under the medical expense tax credit and the challenge with this of course is that.
That also means that you can't typically use a health insurance plan to cover that generally health insurance plans are only going to cover items that show up on this list so thank you very much for following along with me.
I hope actual reimbursement of expenses are tax-free to the employee and this makes this a very attractive benefit and it's why we see this so often not just the appeal of it from a practical perspective but the tax appeal is also fantastic with.
This because it lets the employer deduct these premiums while passing on a benefit to the employee that is not taxable either when the premium is paid or when benefit is received now that's not really what we want to focus on here we want to focus on.