Sentences with phrase «ordinary loss treatment»

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The difference is in tax treatment: personal bad debt is a short - term capital loss (limited deduction), business is an ordinary loss.

Under these rules, foreign exchange gain or loss realized by a fund with respect to foreign currencies and certain futures and options thereon, foreign currency - denominated debt instruments, foreign currency forward contracts, and foreign currency - denominated payables and receivables will generally be treated as ordinary income or loss, although in some cases elections may be available that would alter this treatment.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 eliminated preferential capital gain treatment so that all capital gains were taxed as ordinary income, enacted «passive loss» and «at risk» rules, and eliminated accelerated depreciation methods in favor of straight line depreciation consisting of 39 years for commercial property and 27.5 years for residential property.