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  2. Charitable contribution deductions in the United States

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    An organization must meet certain requirements set forth in the code. Some organizations must also file a request with the Internal Revenue Service to gain status as a tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. A non-exhaustive list of organizations that may meet the Federal requirements are as follows:

  3. Public policy limitation on deduction for business expenses

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    The Court, however, made clear that it would review deduction determinations in light of the principle that the "federal income tax is a tax on net income, not a sanction against wrongdoing." [ 4 ] According to the Court, absent "a few limited and well-defined exceptions" (see below) § 162 does not limit deductions for losses to those losses ...

  4. Free File - Wikipedia

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    Free File Fillable Forms is an electronic version of IRS paper forms. Free File Fillable Forms does not include any elaborate cross-checking or question-and-answer formats (such as is found in many of the Free File Software packages), instead it is a simple fill-in-the blank format (however, it does perform math calculations).

  5. Section 179 depreciation deduction - Wikipedia

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    First, there is a dollar limitation. Under section 179(b)(1), the maximum deduction a taxpayer may take in a year is $1,040,000 for tax year 2020. Second, if a taxpayer places more than $2,000,000 worth of section 179 property into service during a single taxable year, the § 179 deduction is reduced, dollar for dollar, by the amount exceeding ...

  6. IRS tax forms - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2018 tax year, Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, is the only form used for personal (individual) federal income tax returns filed with the IRS. In prior years, it had been one of three forms (1040 [the "Long Form"], 1040A [the "Short Form"] and 1040EZ – see below for explanations of each) used for such returns.

  7. Limits on Depreciation Deduction - Wikipedia

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    For taxation in the United States, the Limits on Depreciation Deduction (Section 280F) [1] was enacted [when?] to limit certain deductions on depreciable assets. Section 280F [1] is a policy that makes the Internal Revenue Code more accurate by allowing a taxpayer to report their business use on an asset they may also need for some personal reasons.

  8. Partnership taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This treatment is similar to corporations entity approach. Thus a partnership for tax purposes is a person, it can sue and be sued and can conclude legal contracts in its own name. The entity concept governs the characterization "income, gain, losses and deductions from the partnership operations, are initially determined at entity level.

  9. Constructive receipt - Wikipedia

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    The full text of the IRS regulation defining constructive receipt states as follows: [2] Income although not actually reduced to a taxpayer's possession is constructively received by him in the taxable year during which it is credited to his account, set apart for him, or otherwise made available so that he may draw upon it at any time, or so that he could have drawn upon it during the taxable ...