Deduction; expenses related to organ donation

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# A.

A taxpayer may claim a deduction from net income in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of organ donation-related expenses, including lost wages, lodging expenses and travel expenses, incurred during the taxable year by the taxpayer or the taxpayer's dependent as a result of the taxpayer's or dependent's donation of a human organ to another person for transfer of that human organ to the body of another person.

# B.

A husband and wife who file separate returns for a taxable year in which they could have filed a joint return may each claim only one-half of the deduction provided by this section that would have been allowed on a joint return.

# C.

For the purposes of this section:

# (1)

"dependent" means "dependent" as defined by Section 152 of the Internal
Revenue Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered; and

# (2)

"human organ" means all or part of a heart, liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung or bone marrow.

Amendment history

Laws 2005, ch. 113, § 1.

Source: official source (NMSA chapter on nmonesource.com)

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