Passive Real Estate Losses
Certain passive losses can offset ordinary income.
Commonly referred to as Passive Activity Losses
Do I Qualify for the Passive Real Estate Losses?
Taxpayers with passive income from rental real estate assets and whose total income is below IRS adjusted gross income limitations.
2022 Passive Real Estate Losses Details
Passive real estate losses (from investments) can help offset passive and nonpassive income for taxpayers with less than $150,000 taxable income (MFJ) or $75,000 (MFS). If you or your spouse actively participated in a passive rental real estate activity, the amount of the passive activity loss that’s disallowed is decreased and you therefore can deduct up to $25,000 of loss from the activity from your nonpassive income.
The maximum special allowance is:
• $25,000 for single individuals and married individuals filing a joint return for the tax year.
• $12,500 for married individuals who file separate returns for the tax year and lived apart from their spouses at all times during the tax year.
• $25,000 for a qualifying estate reduced by the special allowance for which the surviving spouse qualified.
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Benefits
Allows you to use passive real estate losses against active income
Considerations
All passive income must be offset by prior suspended losses and current year losses before reducing ordinary income
Assumptions When Taking the Passive Real Estate Losses
•Actively participated in the activity
•Not a real estate professional
•Property is not treated as a vacation rental property.
You are not married filing separate and lived with your spouse at any time during the year.
Requirements to Claim the Passive Real Estate Losses
Owns rental passive rental real estate
Business Entities That Can Claim the Passive Real Estate Losses
•Schedule E
•Farm Rental
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