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Building Repair Deductions – Thirty Per Cent Of What?

Building Repair Deductions – Thirty Per Cent Of What?

There may be more categories in the future.  You need to determine whether a particular expenditure is a “big deal” within each of those categories.  What is interesting is that the assessment is not made based on dollars, but rather on physical reality. The regulations appear to allow some very large expenditures that somebody just looking at invoices would capitalize.

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Hedge Fund, TEFRA And Community Property Give Woman Tax Nightmare

Hedge Fund, TEFRA And Community Property Give Woman Tax Nightmare

I have a general against the grain belief that joint returns are a bad idea (or at least not that good an idea) for couples who are in the process of splitting.  It is possible that I might modify that a bit for people in community property states.  They end up getting stuck with a split of much of the property.  Apparently, but for the ill-considered amended partnership return, the whole matter would have slid by, but the Tax Court’s ruling is that Ann was supposed to pick up that income even though she was not a partner.

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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.