Hi!
When I filed taxes in 2023, I had capital loss of around $21k ($7k for short term and $14k for long term) from 2022. My over all income was positive and I had capital loss carryover of $18k for next year- 2023.
I was unemployed in year 2023 because I moved out of USA to home country and couldn't find a job and couldn't get any unemployment benefit either. But I received dividend ($1561) in 2023 from investment account in USA. Now, when I'm doing taxes for year 2023, My total income came out negative due to capital loss carryover from previous year. This is so frustrating that IRS uses full $3k limit from previous loss carryover even if income/AGI is so low or negative. My status for year 2023 is non resident alien. I have three questions.
1. Can I just skip filing taxes this year and carry all previous capital losses to year 2024? I barely made any money ($1.56k) in year 2023. Or Could I just file tax this year without using capital loss carryover?
2. Can my negative income be carried for next year or could it provide me any benefit for next year during filing as I plan to work this year?
3. If I do file tax this year, Will my capital loss carryover for next year be $15k ($18k-$3k=$15k)? or more like $18k?
