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- Schedule E
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- Schedule E is mainly for income or loss from rental properties, trusts,
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- subchapter S corporations and partnerships. If you or your accountant
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- used it last year, you'll probably need it again this year.
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- The Tax Simplification Act did not eliminate complications, it just
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- moved them to Schedule E. In truth, what we are doing here is not
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- Schedule E; it's Form 8582 which covers most of Schedule E.
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- If you're like me, much of your Schedule E income and loss have nothing
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- to do with your checkbook. Rather, the numbers come on "K1's," the
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- statements partnerships send out afte the close of each year. Enter
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- your reportable partnership income and loss directly here, or see page
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- >B8>-9 of your manual for suggestions.
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- Your >Unet loss on active real-estate investments> is limited to
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- $25,000——and even that deduction is phased out at the rate of 50 cents
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- for each dollar by which your Adjusted Gross Income exceeds $100,000.
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- (Adjusted Gross Income, for the purposes of this calculation, excludes
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- Social Security benefits, deductible IRA Contributions and Schedule E
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- Passive Losses.) We show losses up to this limit as "Your Active Real-
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- Estate Allowance" near the bottom of the schedule. (Excluded losses may
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- be added to the basis of the property in figuring the eventual capital
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- gain or loss on sale.)
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- Pre-Enactment Passive Loss is 40% in 1988 (65% in 1987) of the loss on
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- all pre-enactment activities (less any losses already allowed in your
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- Active Real Estate allowance, as just described). It's all but impossible
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- to understand these things, let alone deduct them (and even then the IRS
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- includes whatever you do deduct as a "Preference Item" in figuring the
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- Alternative Minimum Tax).
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- Passive Loss Allowed is the sum of the previous two numbers.
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- Total Losses Allowed are the Passive Loss Allowed plus losses allowed
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- because of offsetting profitable activities or investments.
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- NOTES:
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- 1. "Pre-enactment activities" are business deals you got into before
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- October 23, 1986. We treat Prior Year Suspended Losses as post-
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- enactment activities.
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- 2. If any of your gains or losses are 1987 capital gains or losses,
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- they may be subject to reduced tax. Check with your accountant.
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