Preparing Tax Plans and Returns for Clients with Vacation Homes or Home Offices (VHHO)

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Major Topics:

• Should you rent or just use your vacation home? Opportunities and pitfalls
• Strategies and planning for renting your principal residence instead of selling it
• Mixed use of a residence: how deductions are limited in rental situations
• Why buying a vacation home can be a very smart investment
• Home office: qualification and calculation
• Rules for using like-kind exchanges on principal residences and vacation homes
• Maximizing your interest expense deduction in light of limitations in the tax codes
• Understanding the tax rules for acquisition indebtedness and home equity indebtedness

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the application of §280A to a vacation home that is also rented out during part of the year
• Identify the issues related to the use of the residence as a home office
• Distinguish a pure residence from a mixed-use residence and how §280A applies

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