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Your investment may qualify for treatment as a nonbusiness bad debt. See discussion here.
The unpaid debt must be 100% worthless before you can deduct it. There must be no chance that you will recover the amount of the investment. Make sure that you retain all paperwork to substantiate the loss.
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The loss will be reported as a short-term capital loss, so you must first deduct it from any short-term capital gains you have before deducting it from long-term capital gains. Finally, you can deduct up to $3,000 of any remaining balance from other income. If a balance still remains, you can carry it over to subsequent years.
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