IsabellaG
Expert Alumni

Business & farm

This sounds more like a Net Operating Loss (NOL) from 2016 than a passive loss. Do you have a form 8582 in your return showing a Passive Loss Carryover? What about with your 2016 return? Where do you see the 2016 loss  on your 2017 return? Is it on line 21? That's for NOL's.
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