1. Three Types of Income (on Final) a. Active (earned) income b. Passive income - income derived from a passive activity such as working interest in oil and gas, often associated with limited partnerships i. Can only deduct passive losses to the extent you have passive income c. Portfolio income (interest, dividend, annuities, sales of stocks and bonds, royalties not derived from an ordinary course of a trader business)
2. In –class quiz d. Owned a apartment complex ii. What is gross rental income 1. Tenant improvements in lieu of rent 2. Tenant improvement are not in lieu of rent iii. Two troublesome tenants, one comes and tell the landlord that they can’t pay the rent. Gives an interest bearing 90 day note in lieu of the rent. This note is treated as property and should be valued at FMV (fair market value) iv. Tenant hasn’t been in the apartment the entire month of December and has not paid rent. Paid late, landlord received in January 3. Include the rent in previous year’s taxable income v. Own a ten-flat in the city. Landlord lives in one of the ten, rent the other nine out. What is the net rental income? What about the deductions 4. What fractions of the building can you depreciate? 90% vi. Had inside information down in Springfield that a third airport was going to be built in the Chicagoland area. With this inside the information, goes and buys land, pays $50K for it. Thinks the land will appreciate in value. However due to decrease in flights, the airport is never built, the land declines in value to $40K. Can you take a deductible loss? No you cannot take deductible loss. 5. For a deductible loss, there must be a sale or exchange of the property.
