Individual Income Taxes
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Author: Hoffman
Publisher: CENGAGE LEARNING - CONSIGNMENT
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1. List five events that would likely qualify as a casualty:
2. Generally, casualty losses of personal use property are deductible only if the loss resulted from a Presidentially
declared disaster.
TrueFalse
3. Calculate the amount of the casualty loss deduction, if any, that would claimed given that a business warehouse was
completely destroyed by fire:
FMV of the warehouse before the fire
$600,000
FMV of the warehouse after the fire
$0
Basis of the warehouse
$500,000
Insurance recovery
$400,000
4. Assume the same facts as in (3) above except that the warehouse was not completely destroyed and the FMV of the
warehouse after the fire was
$450,000 and the insurance recovery was $100,000. Now what would be the amount of the casualty loss deduction?
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Individual Income Taxes
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