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- From: kss@mathcs.emory.edu (Kevin Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: rental income agony
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:08:51 GMT
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- In article 18359@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes:
- > 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?
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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!
- >
- >
- > 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
- >
- > Disclaimer: A repudiation of a claim.
-
- We shared our house with friends for a year; they didn't pay anything toward
- rent, just split utilities, but my reading was that if they HAD paid anything,
- it wouldn't have been reportable as rental income. The documents said if part
- of the dwelling was used for personal use (as opposed to rented), then the entire
- dwelling counted as personal during that time. There was also a clause about
- 'fair market value'; ie, if they paid less than a 'fair market value' for their
- part then it would not have counted as rent either.
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- Kevin Smith
- Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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