Lesson From The Tax Court:  Gotta Get Physical For Casualty Loss Deduction

Individuals generally cannot deduct casualty losses, at least through the end of 2025. §165(h)(5). But Congress continues to permit individual taxpayers to deduct casualty losses if they are attributable to a federally declared disaster. Id. And we are having more and more disasters. Call it climate change, call it a…

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