Hi - I am preparing to file for 2019 using Turbo Tax & I have a complicated question. I file Schedule C as a sole proprietor (freelance writer). In the past I have also filed a Farm Income form but I stopped doing this when the interest on my rural property land sale contract dropped to a low figure. I now own the land free and clear. An adjoining landowner helps me with the place (I live in a metro area 300 miles away) by cutting hay and gradually improving the pasture; he also gets firewood. I need this activity to qualify for an ultra low Farm & Forest property tax rate; otherwise I would have to pay staggeringly more, thousands of dollars versus a nominal sum. But the farm has never generated income as such, and now I am paying this future neighbor some real money (approx. $6,000 in 2019) in a 3-yr project to put a 1,000 ft. road into the place. How should I go about expensing this stuff, if I can?
