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How To Win An IRS Hobby Loss Audit

So I have gone through 270 hobby loss decisions.  The main takeaway, as I have noted, is that if you win on the first factor you win.  If you lose on the first factor you lose.  That is unless you are Robert Dickson.  So if Terry has been thoroughly unbusinesslike remember Robert Dickson, a yacht chartering case from 1983.  No separate account.  Didn’t advertise enough.  Factor 1 went to the IRS, but he won anyway.

When it comes to the business plan and consulting on how to get money, there are quite a few decisions you can use to argue your way out of a problem, but Susan Crile is one of the best.  The case is one in which we see that a business plan can be displayed in action without writing it down

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.