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If you take the standard mileage rate, multiply the number of miles driven in connection with your rental activities by 56 cents a mile. Include this amount and your parking fees and tolls on line 6. You cannot deduct rental or lease payments, depreciation, or your actual auto expenses if you use the standard mileage rate. Include on line 6 the rental activity portion of the cost of gasoline, oil, repairs, insurance, tires, license plates, etc.

If you claim any auto expenses actual or the standard mileage rate , you must complete Part V of Form and attach Form to your tax return. Include on line 10 fees for tax advice and the preparation of tax forms related to your rental real estate or royalty properties. Do not deduct legal fees paid or incurred to defend or protect title to property, to recover property, or to develop or improve property. Instead, you must capitalize these fees and add them to the property's basis.

In most cases, to determine the interest expense allocable to your rental activities, you must have records to show how the proceeds of each debt were used. Specific tracing rules apply for allocating debt proceeds and repayment.

Interest you paid as part of your rental real estate activity is not subject to the limitation on business interest unless your rental real estate activity is a trade or business. If your rental real estate activity is a trade or business, you must file Form to deduct any interest expenses of that rental real estate activity unless you meet one of the filing exceptions listed in the Instructions for Form If the interest you paid in your rental real estate trade or business is limited, figure the limit on your business interest expenses on Form before completing lines 12 and Follow the instructions under How to report , later, but report the reduced interest on lines 12 and The interest you can't deduct this year will carry forward to next year on Form If your real estate activity is not a trade or business or you meet one of the filing exceptions for Form , follow the instructions under How to report , later, and report all of your deductible interest on lines 12 and If you have a mortgage on your rental property, enter on line 12 the amount of interest you paid for to banks or other financial institutions.

Do not deduct prepaid interest when you paid it. You can deduct it only in the year to which it is properly allocable. Points, including loan origination fees, charged only for the use of money must be deducted over the life of the loan. If you paid more mortgage interest than is shown on your Form or similar statement, see Pub. If you can, enter the entire deductible amount on line Attach a statement to your return explaining the difference. If the recipient was not a financial institution or you did not receive a Form from the recipient, report your deductible mortgage interest on line If you and at least one other person other than your spouse if you file a joint return were liable for and paid interest on the mortgage, and the other person received Form , report your share of the deductible interest on line Attach a statement to your return showing the name and address of the person who received Form You can deduct the amounts paid for repairs and maintenance.

However, you cannot deduct the cost of improvements. Repairs and maintenance costs are those costs that keep the property in an ordinarily efficient operating condition. Examples are fixing a broken lock or painting a room. In contrast, improvements are amounts paid to better or restore your property or adapt it to a new or different use. Examples of improvements are adding substantial insulation or replacing an entire HVAC system. Amounts paid to improve your property must generally be capitalized and depreciated that is, they cannot be deducted in full in the year they are paid or incurred.

See Line 18 , later. You can deduct the cost of ordinary and necessary telephone calls related to your rental activities or royalty income for example, calls to the renter. However, the base rate including taxes and other charges for local telephone service for the first telephone line into your residence is a personal expense and is not deductible. Depreciation is the annual deduction you must take to recover the cost or other basis of business or investment property having a useful life substantially beyond the tax year.

Land is not depreciable. Depreciation starts when you first use the property in your business or for the production of income. It ends when you deduct all your depreciable cost or other basis or no longer use the property in your business or for the production of income. See the Instructions for Form to figure the amount of depreciation to enter on line Depreciation on listed property defined in the Instructions for Form , including a vehicle, regardless of the date it was placed in service; or.

If you have an economic interest in mineral property, you may be able to take a deduction for depletion. Mineral property includes oil and gas wells, mines, and other natural deposits including geothermal deposits. If you buy buildings and your cost includes the cost of the land on which they stand, you must divide the cost between the land and the buildings to figure the basis for depreciation of the buildings. The part of the cost that you allocate to each asset is the ratio of the fair market value of that asset to the fair market value of the whole property at the time you buy it.

If you are not certain of the fair market values of the land and the buildings, you can divide the cost between them based on their assessed values for real estate tax purposes. You may be able to deduct, on line 19, part or all of the cost of modifying existing commercial buildings to make them energy efficient.

For details, see section D, Notice , Notice , and Notice If you have amounts for which you are not at risk, use Form to determine the amount of your deductible loss. Enter that amount in the appropriate column of Schedule E, line For details on the at-risk rules, see At-Risk Rules , earlier.

If you have a rental real estate loss from a passive activity defined earlier , the amount of loss you can deduct may be limited by the passive activity loss rules. You may need to complete Form to figure the amount of loss, if any, to enter on line See the Instructions for Form to determine if your loss is limited.

If your rental real estate loss is not from a passive activity or you meet the exception for certain rental real estate activities explained earlier , you do not have to complete Form Enter the loss from line 21 on line If you have an unallowed rental real estate loss from a prior year that after completing Form you can include this year, include that loss on line If you are a partner, a shareholder in an S corporation, or a beneficiary of an estate or trust, you must take into account your share of preferences and adjustments from these entities for the alternative minimum tax on Form or Schedule I Form If you are a member of a partnership or joint venture or a shareholder in an S corporation, use Part II to report your share of the partnership or S corporation income even if not received or loss.

If you elected to be taxed as a qualified joint venture instead of a partnership, follow the reporting rules under Qualified Joint Venture , earlier. You should receive a Schedule K-1 from the partnership or S corporation. Your copy of Schedule K-1 and its instructions will tell you where on your return to report your share of the items.

If you did not receive these instructions with your Schedule K-1, see your tax return instructions for how to get tax forms, instructions, and publications. Do not attach Schedules K-1 to your return. Keep them for your records. If you are treating items on your tax return differently from the way the partnership or S corporation reported them on its return, you may have to file Form If you report a loss from a partnership or S corporation, your loss may be reduced or not allowed this year.

Apply the basis rules, at-risk rules, and passive activity loss rules to your loss on Schedule E. If your loss is also subject to the excess business loss rules, you figure that limitation separately on Form Any reduction to your loss due to the excess business loss rules will not be reflected on your Schedule E. See the Instructions for Form for more information. Generally, you may not claim your share of a partnership loss including a capital loss to the extent that it is greater than the adjusted basis of your partnership interest at the end of the partnership's tax year.

Any losses and deductions not allowed this year because of the basis limit can be carried forward indefinitely and deducted in a later year subject to the basis limit for that year.

To figure the basis of your interest in a partnership, you can use the Worksheet for Adjusting the Basis of a Partner's Interest in the Partnership in the Partner's Instructions for Schedule K-1 Form For more details on the basis rules for partnerships, see Pub. If you had a loss from a partnership that was not allowed last year because of the basis rules, but all or part is allowed this year, see Line 27 , later, for how to report it.

After applying the basis rules, the loss you report on Schedule E may be further reduced by the at-risk rules and passive activity loss rules. Generally, the deduction for your share of aggregate losses and deductions reported on Schedule K-1 Form S is limited to the basis of your stock determined with regard to distributions received during the tax year and loans from you to the corporation. The basis of your stock is generally figured at the end of the corporation's tax year. To figure your aggregated stock basis, you can generally use the Form For more details on the basis rules for S corporations, see the Instructions for Form If you are claiming a deduction for your share of an aggregate loss or you receive a distribution, dispose of stock, or receive a loan repayment from an S corporation , check the box on the appropriate line in Part II, column e , and attach Form to your return.

If you had a loss from an S corporation that was not allowed last year because of the basis rules, but all or part is allowed this year, see Line 27 , later, for how to report it. If you have a a loss or other deduction from any activity carried on as a trade or business or for the production of income by the partnership or S corporation, and b amounts in the activity for which you are not at risk, your loss may be limited.

For more information, see At-Risk Rules , earlier. If you are subject to the at-risk rules for any activity, check the box on the appropriate line in Part II, column f , of Schedule E, and use Form to figure the amount of any deductible loss. If the activity is nonpassive, enter any deductible loss from Form on the appropriate line in Part II, column i , of Schedule E.

If you had a loss from the partnership or S corporation that was not allowed last year because of the at-risk rules, but all or part is allowed this year, see Line 27 , later, for how to report it. After applying the at-risk rules, the loss you report on Schedule E may be further reduced by the passive activity loss rules. For more information about passive activity losses, see Passive Activity Loss Rules , earlier.

If you have a passive activity loss, in most cases you need to complete Form to figure the amount of the loss to enter in Part II, column g , for that activity. But if you are a general partner or an S corporation shareholder reporting your share of a partnership or an S corporation loss from a rental real estate activity and you meet all of the conditions listed earlier under Exception for Certain Rental Real Estate Activities , you do not have to complete Form Instead, enter your loss in Part II, column g.

If you have passive activity income, complete Part II, column h , for that activity. If you have nonpassive income or losses, complete Part II, columns i through k , as appropriate. If you had a loss from the partnership or S corporation that was not allowed last year because of the passive activity loss rules, but all or part is allowed this year, see Line 27 , later, for how to report it.

If you report a loss on Schedule E from a partnership or S corporation engaged in a trade or business, use Form to figure your excess business loss. Your excess business loss will not be reflected on your Schedule E; instead, it will be added to your income on Form and carried forward to a subsequent year as a net operating loss.

For more information, see the Instructions for Form See the Schedule K-1 instructions before entering on your return other partnership items from a passive activity or income or loss from any publicly traded partnership.

You can deduct unreimbursed ordinary and necessary expenses you paid on behalf of the partnership if you were required to pay these expenses under the partnership agreement.

See Line 27 , later, for how to report these expenses. If you used loan proceeds to buy an interest in, or make a contribution to the capital of, a partnership debt-financed acquisition , report your share of deductible partnership interest expense on either Schedule A or Schedule E, depending on the type of asset or expenditure if the allocation is based on the tracing of loan proceeds to which the interest expense is allocated.

See Line 28 , later, for more information about reporting these interest expenses. If you claimed a credit for federal tax on gasoline or other fuels on your Form , SR, or NR based on information received from the partnership, enter as income in column h or column k , whichever applies, the amount of the credit claimed for Part or all of your share of partnership income or loss from the operation of the business may be considered net earnings from self-employment that must be reported on Schedule SE.

Enter the amount from Schedule K-1 Form , box 14, code A, on Schedule SE after you reduce this amount by any allowable expenses attributable to that income. Follow the instructions below in addition to the instructions earlier for Domestic Partnerships.

If you are a U. If you received both Schedule K-1 and Form for the same type and source of partnership income, report only the income shown on Schedule K-1 in accordance with its instructions. If you are not a U. If you received both Schedule K-1 and Form S for the same type and source of partnership income, report the income on your return as follows. For all income effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States, report only the income shown on Schedule K-1 in accordance with its instructions.

You had an acquisition, disposition, or change in proportional interest of a foreign partnership that:. You contributed property to a foreign partnership in exchange for a partnership interest if:. Also, you may have to file Form if you contributed property with built-in gain to a foreign partnership or certain domestic partnerships or to report certain dispositions by a foreign partnership of property you previously contributed to that partnership if you were a partner at the time of the disposition.

For more details, including penalties for failing to file Form , see Form and its separate instructions. Distributions of prior year accumulated earnings and profits of S corporations are dividends and are reported on Form or SR, line 3b. If you used loan proceeds to buy an interest in, or make a contribution to the capital of, an S corporation debt-financed acquisition , report your share of deductible S corporation interest expense on either Schedule A or Schedule E, depending on the type of asset or expenditure if the allocation is based on the tracing of loan proceeds to which the interest expense is allocated.

Your share of the net income of an S corporation is not subject to self-employment tax. If you do not follow these instructions, the IRS may send you a notice of additional tax due because the amounts reported by the partnership or S corporation on Schedule K-1 do not match the amounts you reported on your tax return. Enter your total prior year unallowed losses that are now deductible on a separate line in column i of line Do not combine these losses with, or net them against, any current year amounts from the partnership or S corporation.

Enter on a separate line in column g of line 28 your total prior year unallowed losses not reported on Form Such losses include prior year unallowed losses now deductible because you did not have an overall loss from all passive activities or you disposed of your entire interest in a passive activity in a fully taxable transaction. You can deduct unreimbursed ordinary and necessary partnership expenses you paid on behalf of the partnership on Schedule E if you were required to pay these expenses under the partnership agreement.

You can only deduct unreimbursed expenses on Schedule E that are trade or business expenses under section Don't report unreimbursed partnership expenses separately if the expenses are from a passive activity and you are required to file Form ; otherwise, do the following. Enter unreimbursed partnership expenses from nonpassive activities on a separate line in column i of line Do not combine these expenses with, or net them against, any other amounts from the partnership.

If the expenses are from a passive activity and you are not required to file Form , enter the expenses related to a passive activity on a separate line in column g of line For nonpassive income or loss and passive income or losses for which you are not filing Form , enter in the applicable column of line 28 your current year ordinary income or loss after applying any special rules that limit losses from the partnership or S corporation.

Report each related item required to be reported on Schedule E including items of income or loss stated separately on Schedule K-1 in the applicable column of a separate line following the line on which you reported the current year ordinary income or loss.

Also, enter a description of the related item for example, depletion in column a of the same line. If you are required to file Form , see the Instructions for Form before completing Schedule E. A debt-financed acquisition is the use of loan proceeds to buy an interest in, or to make a contribution to the capital of, a partnership or S corporation. You must allocate the loan proceeds and the related interest expense among all the assets of the entity. You can use any reasonable method.

For interest allocated to trade or business assets or expenditures , report the interest on a separate line of your Schedule E, Part II. Enter "business interest" and the name of the partnership or S corporation in column a and the amount in column i. For interest allocated to passive activity use, enter the interest on Form as a deduction from the passive activity of the partnership or S corporation. Enter "passive interest" and the name of the entity in column a and the amount in column g.

For interest allocated to investment use, enter the interest on Form Enter "investment interest" and the name of the entity in column a and the amount in column i. Carry the balance of the deductible amount to Schedule A, line 9. Any interest allocated to proceeds used for personal purposes is generally not deductible. For more information on allocating and reporting these interest expenses, see Notice in Cumulative Bulletin Also, see Notice in Cumulative Bulletin If you report a loss, receive a distribution, dispose of stock, or receive a loan repayment from an S corporation, you must check the box in column e on line 28 and attach the required basis computation.

For more information, see Basis rules for S corporations , earlier. If you are a beneficiary of an estate or trust, use Part III to report your part of the income even if not received or loss. You should receive a Schedule K-1 Form from the fiduciary.

Your copy of Schedule K-1 and its instructions will tell you where on your return to report the items from Schedule K Do not attach Schedule K-1 to your return. Keep it for your records. If you are treating items on your tax return differently from the way the estate or trust reported them on its return, you may have to file Form Do not include this amount in the total on line See section An individual who received a distribution from, or who was the grantor of or transferor to, a foreign trust must also complete Part III of Schedule B Form and may have to file Form In addition, the owner of a foreign trust must ensure that the trust files an annual information return on Form A.

Do not attach Schedule s Q to your return. Enter the combined totals of columns d and e on Schedule E, line Instead, report it on Form or SR, line 2b. Report the total of the amounts shown on Schedule s Q, line 2c. This is the smallest amount you are allowed to report as your taxable income Form , SR, or NR, line It is also the smallest amount you are allowed to report as your alternative minimum taxable income AMTI on Form , line 4. If the amount in column c is larger than your taxable income would otherwise be, enter the amount from column c on Form , SR, or NR, line Similarly, if the amount in column c is larger than your AMTI would otherwise be, enter the amount from column c on Form , line 4.

Be sure to make the appropriate entries on the comparable lines on Form Do not include the amount shown in column c in the total on Schedule E, line Special estimated tax rules may apply if you have gross farming or fishing income.

You will not be charged a penalty for underpayment of estimated tax if:. Your gross farming or fishing income for or is at least two-thirds of your gross income; and. We ask for the information on this form to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the United States. You are required to give us the information.

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If you have comments concerning the accuracy of these time estimates or suggestions for making this form simpler, we would be happy to hear from you. See the instructions for the tax return with which this form is filed. Home Instructions Instructions for Schedule E Credits for self-employed persons.

Business meal expense. Excess business loss limitation. Reminder Self-employed tax payments deferred from Information returns. Qualified Joint Venture Making the election. Qualified person. More information. Other activities. Modified adjusted gross income. Recordkeeping Specific Instructions Filers of Form Part I Credits for qualified sick and family leave wages and credits for employee retention.

Extraterritorial income exclusion. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Line 1a Line 1b Land rental. Line 2 QJV. Line 3 Rental income from farm production or crop shares. Credit or deduction for access expenditures. Line 6 Line 10 Lines 12 and 13 Limitation on business interest.

How to report. Line 14 Line 17 Line 18 Separating cost of land and buildings. Basis rules for S corporations. At-risk rules. Passive activity loss rules. Excess business loss rules. Owners of S corporation stock and debt. Column e. Supplemental Income and Loss. What's New. Standard mileage rate. Self-employed tax payments deferred from General Instructions. Form to report an excess business loss.

Form to apply a limitation to your loss from an at-risk activity. Form to notify the IRS of any inconsistent tax treatment for an item on your return. Form to apply a limitation to your loss from passive activities. Form to report like-kind exchanges. Form to figure your extraterritorial income exclusion. Form to determine whether your business interest deduction is limited.

Form or A to claim a deduction for qualified business income. Single-member limited liability company LLC. Making the election. A loss from an activity carried on as a trade or business or for the production of income, and Amounts in the activity for which you are not at risk. Qualified nonrecourse financing. Qualified nonrecourse financing is financing for which no one is personally liable for repayment and is: Borrowed by you in connection with the activity of holding real property other than mineral property ; Not convertible from a debt obligation to an ownership interest; and Loaned or guaranteed by any federal, state, or local government, or borrowed by you from a qualified person.

Related to you unless the nonrecourse financing obtained is commercially reasonable and on substantially the same terms as loans involving unrelated persons , The seller of the property or a person related to the seller , or A person who receives a fee due to your investment in real property or a person related to that person.

Passive Activity. Substantially nondepreciable property, Property incidental to development activities, and Property related to activities in which you materially participate.

Activities of real estate professionals. Rental real estate activities are your only passive activities. You do not have any prior year unallowed losses from any passive activities. All of the following apply if you have an overall net loss from these activities.

If married filing separately, you lived apart from your spouse all year. You have no current or prior year unallowed credits from passive activities. Active participation. Such management decisions include: Approving new tenants, Deciding on rental terms, Approving capital or repair expenditures, and Other similar decisions. This is your adjusted gross income from Form , SR, or Form NR, line 11, without taking into account: Any allowable passive activity loss, Rental real estate losses allowed for real estate professionals see Activities of real estate professionals , earlier , Taxable social security or tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, Deductible contributions to a traditional IRA or certain other qualified retirement plans under section , The student loan interest deduction, The deduction for one-half of self-employment tax, The exclusion from income of interest from series EE and I U.

Specific Instructions. Filers of Form Page one of IRS Form and Form NR requests that you attach Schedule E to report any income from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, trusts, estates, and residual interests in real estate mortgage investment conduits.

Part 1 of form Schedule E is used to calculate your net income or loss from rental real estate and royalties. Parts 2, 3, and 4 are used to list and calculate your income or loss from partnerships, S corporations, estates, trusts, and real estate mortgage investment conduits. Part 5 on the second page of Schedule E summarizes the various parts of the tax form, and transfers the total income or loss amount onto Form Click any of the IRS Schedule E form links below to download, save, view, and print the file for the corresponding year.