The Timber Owner and His Federal Income TaxU.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1975 - 76 pages |
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acquired adjusted basis allocated amount on line apply basis for depletion board feet capital asset held capital gains treatment carrying charges casualty and theft casualty loss Christmas trees computing condemnation cost cut timber cutting contract cutting of timber date of disposal deple depletion allowance depletion unit depreciation determined disposal of timber election to treat expenditures expense of sale fair market value farm forest Forms W-2 gain or loss gains and losses incurred instructions Internal Revenue Code Internal Revenue Service involuntary conversion itemize deductions less line 15 logs ment merchantable timber number of units operation ordinary income payment planting property held pulpwood purchase quantity of timber Revenue Ruling right to cut sale of timber sale or exchange Schedule sell standing timber stump stumpage Subtract line taxable taxpayer timber account timber cut timber sold tion tops and limbs Total add lines tract trade or business transaction zero
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Page 70 - However, if the property used in a trade or business or held for the production of income...
Page 47 - Such fair market value shall be the fair market value as of the first day of the taxable year in which such timber is cut, and shall thereafter be considered as the cost of such cut timber to the taxpayer for all purposes for which such cost is a necessary factor.
Page 50 - In the case of property held by one person for life with remainder to another person, the deduction shall be computed as if the life tenant were the absolute owner of the property and shall be allowed to the life tenant.
Page 56 - ... degree of utilization, etc. The value sought will be the selling price, assuming a transfer between a willing seller and a willing buyer as of that particular day. Due consideration will be given to the factors and the principles involved in the determination of the fair market value of timber as described In the regulations under section 611.
Page 47 - In the case of mines, oil and gas wells, other natural deposits, and timber, a reasonable allowance for depletion and for depreciation of Improvements, accordIng to the peculiar conditions In each case...
Page 64 - capital assets' means property held by the taxpayer (whether or not connected with his trade or business), but does not include stock in trade of the taxpayer or other property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close .of the taxable year, or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business...
Page 50 - An economic interest is possessed in every case in which the taxpayer has acquired by investment any interest in mineral in place...
Page 71 - Business expenses deductible from gross income include the ordinary and necessary expenditures directly connected with or pertaining to the taxpayer's trade or business...
Page 50 - ... therein may be determined separately, but, when determined as of the same date, shall together never exceed the value at that date of the mineral or timber as a whole.
Page 19 - In general losses for which an amount may be deducted from gross income must be evidenced by closed and completed transactions, fixed by identifiable events, bona fide and actually sustained during the taxable period for which allowed.