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Your Money
Gym fees, fitness classes, and exercise lessons would count as medical costs on your federal taxes. The yearly limit is $1,000, or $2,000 for joint filers and heads of household, and it helps only once your medical costs pass 7.5% of your income.
Gear used only for exercise or sports would count, inside the same yearly limit. Each sports item counts up to $250, and clothes or shoes count only if made for one sport and used for nothing else.
More about this bill
If you pay for a gym, fitness classes, or workout gear, those costs could count as medical expenses on your federal taxes. You could count up to $1,000 a year. The limit is $2,000 for married couples filing together and for heads of household. Today you can deduct medical costs only for the part that is more than 7.5% of your income (adjusted gross income). So fitness costs would lower your taxes only if your total medical costs pass that line. Workout videos and books count if they teach exercise. Gear counts only if it is used just for exercise or sports. Clothes and shoes count only if they are made for one sport and used for nothing else. Each piece of sports gear counts up to $250, but exercise equipment has no per-item limit. Memberships at private clubs owned by their members do not count. Neither do memberships at places that offer golf, hunting, sailing, or riding. If a fitness program also includes other things, like travel or lodging, only the exercise part counts. The change would start with the first tax year after the bill becomes law.
Congressional Summary
Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2025 or the PHIT Act of 2025This bill allows a federal tax deduction of up to $1,000 ($2,000 for married individuals who file a joint federal tax return or a head of a household) for qualified sports and fitness expenses. (Conditions apply.)Under current law, an individual may deduct unreimbursed expenses paid for medical care for themselves, their spouse, or a qualified dependent to the extent that such expenses exceed 7.5% of adjusted gross income.Under the bill, the definition of medical care (for purposes of the tax deduction) is expanded to include qualified sports and fitness expenses. The bill defines qualified sports and fitness expenses as amounts paid exclusively for the sole purpose of participating in a physical activity, includingfitness facility memberships,participation or instruction in physical exercise or activity, orequipment for a physical exercise or activity program.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-26
- Date Added
- 2026-10-22
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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