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21 March 2018 | 36 replies
It could – and should – be terminated.”Wolf highlights the fact that the ability of banks to create money requires governments and taxpayers to underwrite the banking system:“Banking is therefore not a normal market activity, because it provides two linked public goods: money and the payments network.
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28 March 2018 | 2 replies
This trade or business requirement can be particularly difficult for rental properties to meet and is usually based on the extent of the taxpayer's involvement in the rental activity.
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30 March 2018 | 4 replies
This has always been the rule.Where it came into play most often was for taxpayers subject to the AMT.
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2 April 2018 | 5 replies
@Lauren Keen I am not sure one way or the other if you can take the deduction since I don't have all the facts, but I can tell you that the real estate professional designation is not a requirement to take the home office deduction with respect to a rental activity.There is nothing in §280A (the home office section in the tax code) that mentions being a real estate professional is required in order to take the home office deduction for your rental activity.However, in addition to the rules regarding the space itself, there is the requirement that the taxpayer's rental activities rise to the level of a trade or business, which the Treasury has conveniently never defined for us.But it seems that rental activities would rise to the level of a trade or business if the activities are substantial, regular, and continuous.However, there is a case, Curphey v.
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1 April 2018 | 1 reply
., The LLC is the taxpayer so it has to be the entity that does the exchange.
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10 December 2018 | 6 replies
I can't seem to find any guidance on my question specifically, and what I find says that HELOC funds must be used to buy, build, improve the taxpayers qualified residences (primary and second home) and cannot exceed $750k.
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7 April 2018 | 7 replies
File Form 3115 instead since it doesn't require amending, you can file it at any time and you'll get your catch-up depreciation credited to your taxpayer account within 30 days.
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4 April 2018 | 10 replies
Is this the same thing where it really isn't a fee but an advance tax payment?
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5 April 2018 | 8 replies
., rental) use would not include any period after the last date that the property is used as the principal residence of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse, so it essentially doesn't matter that it was a rental from December 2014 - June 2017 for purposes of the home sale gain exclusion since the last date you lived in the property as your principal residence was before you rented it out.Depreciation recapture is another story.
6 April 2021 | 8 replies
Account Closed , Usually, that sentence that you copies has created various private revenue ruling from IRS to a various taxpayer.