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April 25, 2020
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Real estate pro

  • April 25, 2020
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I selected "Real Estate Professional Selection" with the two conditions satisfied.

But TurboTax isn’t  giving me the maximum loss deduction.

It’s still calculating zero losses. Any insights?

    Best answer by Anonymous_

    You will find the screenshot below in the Property Profile section.

     

    You must check "Yes" as to whether you materially participated in the rental property. Real estate professional status is insufficient by itself; you must materially participate as a real estate professional to avoid the passive activity rules.

     

     

     

    2 replies

    April 25, 2020

    on the worksheet did you check material participation box d 

    The tax law places limits on the deductibility of passive income. Passive income does not include an activity in which an individual is a material participant. A material participant is an individual who participates in an activity for more than 500 hours. An individual is also a material participant if the individual's participation was substantially all the participation in the activity of all individuals for the tax year, including the participation of individuals who did not own any interest in the activity. An individual may be considered to be a material participant if the individual satisfies other tests. See IRS Publication 925.

     

    Generally, rental activities are passive activities
    even if you materially participated in them.
    However, if you qualified as a real estate professional, rental real estate activities in which
    you materially participated aren’t passive activities. For this purpose, each interest you have in
    a rental real estate activity is a separate activity,
    unless you choose to treat all interests in rental
    real estate activities as one activity. See the Instructions for Schedule E (Form 1040 or
    1040-SR), Supplemental Income and Loss, for
    information about making this choice.
    Qualifications. You qualified as a real estate
    professional for the year if you met both of the
    following requirements.
    • More than half of the personal services you
    performed in all trades or businesses during the tax year were performed in real
    property trades or businesses in which you
    materially participated.
    • You performed more than 750 hours of
    services during the tax year in real property
    trades or businesses in which you materially participated.

    Level 15
    April 25, 2020

    You will find the screenshot below in the Property Profile section.

     

    You must check "Yes" as to whether you materially participated in the rental property. Real estate professional status is insufficient by itself; you must materially participate as a real estate professional to avoid the passive activity rules.

     

     

     

    Ray59Author
    Level 2
    April 25, 2020

    Bingo!  Thanks.

    Level 2
    April 18, 2021

    This box does not even show up in there 2020 Property profile. Can you kindly give some pointers?