Report post

Can losses from passive activities offset income?

Losses from passive activities can only offset income from other passive activities and not from active business or personal income. However, if a taxpayer has net passive activity income, they may use losses from passive activities to offset that income.

What is passive activity loss?

Definition of passive activity loss. Generally, your passive activity loss for the tax year is the excess of your passive activity deductions over your passive activity gross income. See Passive Activity Income and Deductions, later.

When did the passive activity loss rules end?

The tax benefits obtained could far exceed the amount of money invested in the tax shelter. All this came to an abrupt end in 1986 when Congress enacted the passive activity loss rules. (I.R.C. Section 469.) These rules were designed to limit a taxpayer's ability to use real estate or business losses to offset other income.

The World's Leading Crypto Trading Platform

Get my welcome gifts