How Much Personal Use Of Airplane Is Too Much For Tax Free Exchange?
In summary, there is no legal support for treating the relinquished aircraft as two properties for purposes of § 1031. In addition, the position that property either meets or fails to meet the “held for” requirement of § 1031(a)(1) and should not be treated as two properties is consistent with the safe harbor published in Rev. Proc. 2008-16. Consequently, the relinquished aircraft should be treated as one property that either meets “the held” for requirement of § 1031(a)(1) or fails to meet the requirement
Tax Losses From Genetically Engineered Deer Allowed
Deer farms and genetically engineering deer to have impressive racks turns out to be very controversial. I have to admit when I read “The Taxpayer has four small two and one-half acre pens on the property where he keeps the genetically engineered deer that have been bred”, I started thinking that this might be the setting for an F. Paul Wilson novel. You will see critics of the practice using the term “Frankendeer”to describe some of the outcomes of breeding programs. There is also a sense that fenced preserves are kind of unsporting and that the people taking the trophies are more shooters than hunters.
This piece quotes Brian Murphy of the Quality Deer Management Association – “Most hunters find great disdain in a known outcome. That is not hunting. There has to be a high degree of not being successful. The deer has to have a fair chance to escape.”
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