Income Tax Planning Flashcards
Capital Assets
Most personal use Assets and Investment Assets
What is not a capital asset. defined by section 1221(a)
Inventory
Depreciable property used in trade or business
copy right and creative works (if owned by creator)
accounts and notes receivable
Increases to basis
Capital improvements
Assessments for local improvements
Cost of restoring damaged property after casualty loss
Legal fees
Zoning costs
Decreases to basis
Casualty/ theft loss reimbursements
Deduction for clean fuel vehicles
Section 179 deduction
Credit for qualified electric vehicles
Depreciation
Non taxable Corp distributions
Carry over basis
The cost basis of the exchanged property
Double basis
Gifted asset where FMV is less than donors basis at time of gift
Collectibles tax rate
28%
Unrecaptured section 1250 gain tax rate
25%
Qualifying small business stock (section 120) tax
Portion taxed at 28% if holding period is at least 5 years.
Wash Sale
Occurs when taxpayer disposes of securities at a loss and acquires substantially identical securities within 30 days before or after the date of the loss sale
Wash Sale rules
the disallowed loss is added to the cost of the new stock to determine basis
Do wash sale rules apply? Index Fund for Index Fund
Yes
Do Wash sale rules apply? Index Fund for Managed Large Cap fund
no
Capital Asset Losses
Deductible to extent of capital gains, plus $3,000
Personal Use Property Losses
Losses may not be recognized or deducted
Trade or Business Losses
Ordinary Loss, deductible against ordinary income
1244 Stock
allows an individual to deduct up to 50k (s), 100k (mfj) for losses on small business stock as an ordinary loss.
Section 267 Stock
Disallows losses from direct or indirect sales or exchanges of property between related parties.