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True or False: The tax benefits associated with tax shelter investments are reduced by the at-risk
provisions and the passive activity loss rules. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔True
True or False: The passive activity loss rules only apply to individuals and personal service
corporations. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔False
True or False: A taxpayer's deductible loss from an activity for any taxable year is limited to the
amount the taxpayer has at risk at the end of the taxable year. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔True
True or False: Losses from passive activities that are disallowed in the current year may be
carried forward to future years where they may provide a tax benefit. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔True
True or False: In general, passive activity losses can only offset passive activity income. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔True
Increase or decrease at risk amount? Invest additional funds or property - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Increase amount
Increase or decrease at risk amount? Increase recourse or qualified non recourse business debt
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Increase
Increase or decrease at risk amount? Decrease recourse or qualified non recourse business debt
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Decreases
,Increase or decrease at risk amount? Decrease owner's share of activity income - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Decreases
Roberto invested $18,000 in a chicken production operation. Using nonrecourse notes, the
business purchases $120,000 worth of grain to feed the chickens. Roberto's share of the
expense is $26,000.
Assuming that the passive activity loss rules do not apply, he can deduct $ - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔18,000
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Any trade or business or income-producing activity in which the taxpayer does not materially
participate. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Passive
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, and other payments for services rendered by the taxpaye
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Active
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Gain on the sale or other disposition of assets used in an active trade or business. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Active
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Interest, dividends, annuities, and royalties not derived in the ordinary course of a trade or
business - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Portfolio
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Gain or loss from the disposition of property that produces portfolio income or is held for
investment purposes. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Portfolio
, Active, portfolio, or passive?
Income from intangible property if the taxpayer's personal efforts significantly contributed to
the creation of the property. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Active
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Profit from a trade or business in which the taxpayer is a material participant. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Active
Active, portfolio, or passive?
Subject to certain exceptions, all rental activities, whether the taxpayer materially participates
or not. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Passive
Carlos owns an interest in an activity that produces a $100,000 loss during the year.
How would he generally prefer to have the activity classified? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Active
Loss
Generally, if an activity is classified as passive, a loss from that activity can offset - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔only passive income
An active loss can offset income from - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔active, passive, and portfolio
Kim owns an interest in an activity that produces $100,000 of income during the year.
She would rather have the activity classified as - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Passive