You can also take deductions for costs relating to criminal activity! - eviltoast
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    9 months ago

    Certain insurance payouts, specifically those that exceed your premiums, are taxable. Lump sum payments generally aren’t unless it’s a benefit provided by your employer in excess of 50k, but annuities are taxable. As would be any interest you collect on those policies.

    Depreciation on a vehicle you use to generate income is deductable, as would be say, depreciation on a home you rent out. And if you rent out rooms in your personal home but don’t run a business renting out property, that income needs to be reported too.

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      9 months ago

      This discussion has only been about personal taxes, so stop bringing up business taxation.

      Are you talking solely about life insurance? Because that is one very specific thing, and payouts from that are not in the same category at all as any other typical insurance.

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        9 months ago

        Which is why there’s a line for other undeclared income.

        The whole conversation is about line 8 not exclusively being for crimes.