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- From: ann@cco.caltech.edu (Ann Terese Heil)
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- Subject: Re: rental income agony
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:07:20 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
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- <long discussion of various deductions available to people who share
- their homes with renters omitted>
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- >One can take a loss of upto $25,000 or so per year, if you are actively
- >involved in the rental process and most people are. Exceptions could
- >be if you have a manager or firm to buffer you from the transactions.
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- I was under the impression that if you rent out your own home to other
- people while still living in it (ie you own the home and have rent-paying
- housemates) that the best you could do in terms of your taxes is come
- up net neutral. That is, you can not claim more losses than income.
- For example, say you get $5000 in rental income. Depreciation, taxes,
- income, insurance, etc. add up to $7000. I was under the understanding
- that you could only claim $5000 in losses. You couldn't take the extra
- $2000 to reduce the rest of your tax burden. (I understand that in the
- non-ownwer occupied situation - you don't live there - you can have a
- loss of up to $25,000).
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- Is this the correct interpretation?
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- ann
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