How can I force Ufile to use my spouse (high income one) to claim medical expense?

[Tony-J]

We have a lot of medical expense and my spouse's marginal rate is high. I think this is beneficial to let my spouse to claim medical expense. Could you please show me the way? Thanks

[Curmudgeon]

Medical expenses that can be claimed are expenses minus minimum($2,479, 3% of net income). 3% of net income of lower income spouse is usually less than $2,479 yielding a greater deduction. It is usually best to have medical expenses flow to the lower income spouse.

[Tony-J]

I have calculated the difference and my spouse marginal tax rate is 48% and we have over 20K medical expense. using $2479 is actually beneficial in our case.

Is there anyone know how to force to use higher income family member for medical expense? 

Thanks in advance!

[clw]

You can choose under the medical expenses dialogue in the Interview section. In my case, there was a 3$ dollar benefit if forced to the higher income earner. This is unusual and could be due to the optimizer working with pension fractionation, charitable donations and medical expenses simultaneously.

[Tony-J]

Thank you very much. I just tried it. you are right, the software did chose the best for our case. If I force to claim medical expense by spouse actually the refund is $100 less otherwise. So I kept the claim after all. But this is good to know.