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- Path: sparky!uunet!island!guido
- From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
- Subject: Re: Taxes: deducting gambling losses against winnings?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.184704.3371@island.COM>
- Keywords: IRS gambling
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- Organization: Island Graphics Corp. San Rafael, Ca.
- References: <1992Dec30.032707.8801@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:47:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.032707.8801@cbnewse.cb.att.com> kvk@cbnewse.cb.att.com (Kevin) writes:
- >He and I agree that in theory you can offset gambling income by deducting
- >gambling losses up to the amount of your winnings. He says though that saving
- >your losing betting tickets from the track, even if you staple them to the
- >day's program, are not recognized by the IRS as proof of gambling losses,
- >that in effect there is NO allowable way to document gambling losses from
- >the racetrack.
-
- I just heard Phil Storer (professor of taxation at Cal State Hayward) discuss
- this issue on KGO radio a couple of weeks ago. You CAN deduct gambling losses
- to the extent of gambling winnings. In the case of horse racing, I would
- suggest keeping the stubs, and a diary would probably also be good. Mr.
- Storer spoke of a tax case where deductions were disallowed by the tax
- courts even though the taxpayer had kept old stubs (probably why your
- brother thinks these aren't any good). The catch was that ALL of the stubs
- showed that he had lost money EVERY time gambled except for the times
- when he had to file a W2. The court ruled that this simply wasn't believable
- (I agree with them). So if you are going to do this, you are going to have
- to claim income in addition to what you have on your W2. Also remember,
- you don't have to show this "proof" to anyone unless you get audited.
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- Guido
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