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Long-standing sole proprietorshop inactive in 2019 but not abandoned---will rise again. What to do about tax filing?
Circumstances required that I not pursue my sole proprietorship business in 2019, but I will be engaging in business activities again through it in 2020. Until this year, this business had been in active operation for many years. In 2019, there was and will be no income and no expenses, nothing to report. I want to be sure to file correctly so that the IRS does not think that I have simply skipped reporting business income. Also, I don't want to compromise anything so that restarting business activity makes it awkward when it is time to file for 2020, when there will be income and expenses to report. How is suspending but not abandoning a sole proprietorship properly handled at tax time for both the year it is suspended and, subsequently, when business activity once again is being pursued?