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Residential rental property is usually considered a passive activity from a tax perspective (there are exceptions). This means if the activity generates losses, the losses are passive losses. Passive losses usually can only be used to offset passive income. If you have one rental property that makes a $5000 taxable profit and another that has …
Well 5 of them, I’m only going to count on one hand. I probably hear some variation of this every month: I thought having rental property would save me on taxes. Well, it does. It just may not always be obvious. We’ll go through some ways that having rental property can “save” you on taxes. …
Most often taxpayers receive a 1099-NEC for contract work they did for a company. However, taxpayers with a business, self- employment, or rental property may actually be required to issue a 1099-NEC form themselves under certain circumstances. Military families often have some side income or rental property and if this is the case for you …
Disclaimer: As with most of this series, the focus is on long term rental property income and expenses that are filed as part of an individual tax return as opposed to a business tax return. However most of what I write does apply to short term rentals as well. Nothing in this article should be …
Often an incidental military landlord gets surprised by depreciation recapture when the rental property is sold. This can be due to several reasons. One is that the taxpayer expects to have capital gains excluded from taxation and he or she doesn’t know about depreciation recapture. Another common reason is that the taxpayer, for whatever reason, …
Whether you find rental property taxes and Schedule E tax forms simple or difficult, errors do happen and some of them can be costly. Sometimes fixing them can be difficult and time consuming. Paying interest and penalties is not any fun either. Here are some errors to avoid. 1. Depreciation Errors. Depreciation is often viewed …
While some conversions of a residence to rental property are part of a long term plan, often for service members and military families the decision to convert just seems to be the best option when a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) comes up. Most incidental landlords don’t know what to expect for taxes with rental …
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) went into effect in 2018. One good thing about this change in tax law was that QBI offered up to a 20% deduction from qualifying income, so that taxes could be substantially lower for qualifying business activity. In many cases military landlords can qualify for this deduction. For …
This question often comes up when a military landlord owned and lived in a property, transferred away (PCS) for a few years and converted the property to a rental. Then the military landlord returns to the area and wonders if it is a good idea to move back in or not. There are at least …
We military landlords tend to want to maximize deductions and minimize taxes. That is probably true of all taxpayers. I know I haven’t had a client yet who said they wanted to pay more in taxes than was required. For the purposes of this article, surviving an audit means walking away without any additional taxes, …