ThomasM125
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Self employed

The deduction will be allowed but it will only benefit you until it reduces your income to $0. For instance, if you had a business loss of $30,000 and other income of $10,000, you would use $10,000 of the loss in the current year to reduce your other income to $0. The rest of the loss would be considered a net operating loss that would be carried over to next year.

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