Question

Carlos opens a dry cleaning store during the year. He invests $30,000 of his own money and borrows $60,000 from a local bank. He uses $40,000 of the loan to buy a building and the remaining $20,000 for equipment. During the first year, the store has a loss of $24,000. In the next year, Carlos has a loss from the dry cleaning store of $18,000. For the second year, Carlos can deduct $ of the loss.

Answer 1

$6,000

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the main the activitity of Carlos' business is dry cleaning services, but not a trade in or business in holding real property, he is only is at risk for $30,000 which is personal money

Therefore, the total of $24,000 will be deducted in the first year while the remaining $6,000 will be deducted in the second year to have a total of $30,000 which is his personal risk.

Therefore, for the second year, Carlos can deduct $6,000 of the loss.