Childcare Eligible Expenses
The IRS determines which expenses are eligible for reimbursement. Eligible expenses include before/after school care, au pair services, preschool/nursery school, summer day camp, and elder daycare.
Search Childcare Eligible Expenses
| Child Care Expenses | Eligible |
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| Activity fees | |
| After school program | ![]() |
| Au Pair | ![]() |
| Babysitting (work-related, in your home or someone else's home) | ![]() |
| Babysitting (not work-related, for other purpose) | |
| Babysitting by your relative who is not a tax dependent (work-related) | ![]() |
| Babysitting by your tax dependent (work-related or for other purpose) | |
| Before or after school programs | ![]() |
| Child care | ![]() |
| Dance Lessons | |
| Dependent care (while you work, to enable you to work or look for work) | ![]() |
| Educational, learning or study skills services | |
| Extended care (supervised program before or after regular school hours) | ![]() |
| Field trips | |
| Household services (housekeeper, maid, cook, etc) | |
| Housekeeper who cares for child (only portion of payment attributable to work-related child care) | ![]() |
| Kindergarten tuition | |
| Language classes | |
| Late payment fees | |
| Meals, food or snacks | |
| Medical care | |
| Nanny | ![]() |
| Nursery school | ![]() |
| Payroll taxes related to eligible care | ![]() |
| Piano lessons | |
| Preschool | ![]() |
| Private school tuition (for kindergarten and up) | |
| Registration fees (required for eligible care, after actual services are received) | ![]() |
| Registration fees (required for eligible care, prior to actual services received) | |
| School tuition | |
| Sick child care | ![]() |
| Sleep-away camp | |
| Summer day camp | ![]() |
| Total payments (transferred from previous administrator) | ![]() |
| Transportation to and from eligible care (not provided by your care provider) | |
| Transportation to and from eligible care (provided by your care provider) | ![]() |
| Tutoring | |