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- From: JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones)
- Subject: rental income agony
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32:19 GMT
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- I am one of 1992's record number of single, first-time home buyers. The
- friend I was sharing an apartment with was left in the lurch so I agreed
- to let him live in my house in return for paying half the mortgage and expenses.
- My friend is obviously paying me rent, but how do I report this to the IRS?
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- Trying to apply the various rules in IRS publications is extremely agravating.
- Their model of a rental arrangement is that at each point in time a property
- or cleanly divisble portion thereof is in a state "rental" or a state of
- "personal use". In my case, everything except the bedrooms has communal use.
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- What seems fair to me is to treat his share of the mortgage payment as my
- net income, folding the interest and taxes into the itemized deductions
- on schedule A. There is a rule about how the base rate for the first phone
- line is not a deductible expense, so it would have to be added. Is this
- acceptable to the IRS? What about the cable TV bill? What about depreciation?
- What about the little box on schedule E: "Did you use the property for personal
- purposes..."? Arrgh!
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- David L. Jones | Phone: (614) 292-6929
- Ohio State Unviversity | Internet:
- 1971 Neil Ave. Rm. 406 | jonesd@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu
- Columbus, OH 43210 | jones-d@eng.ohio-state.edu
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