DianeW777
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Investors & landlords

If a loss is carried forward to combine the QBI for all business activities this loss would reduce the qualifying income eligible for QBI.  It would make sense that the tax would go up because the deduction would go down. The combined amount of income eligible for QBI provides the net result that it is calculated from.

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