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deductions

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
March 31, 2021
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Hello,

I sale Real Estate on 2020 I had no sales, can I still deduct my expenses

Best answer by M-MTax

You can deduct all of your business expenses and that might create an NOL that you can carryback.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p536#en_US_2020_publink1000177318

Level 11

You can still claim your business expenses on SCH C. Just be aware that if you don't have the business income to deduct them from, then those expenses just get carried forward to next year. Then you can deduct them from the business income next year, provided you have the business income to actually deduct them from.

Also, if you don't "claim" the expenses on your 2020 tax return, then you can't carry them forward to the 2021 return next year. So claim them.

M-MTaxAnswer

Level 15

You can deduct all of your business expenses and that might create an NOL that you can carryback.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p536#en_US_2020_publink1000177318