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03-06-2022
04:02 PM
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This is a case where there are tax laws, and then there is common sense.
If I were preparing these client's returns, I would not be reporting any rental income received and would simply consider this property as a second home owned by the taxpayer.
If it weren't the daughter, and instead a non-relative renting the property, I would have a different response. But this isn't really a rental situation as we classically understand it, and it is silly to parse the laws and text of the IRS code.
For all those who disagree: if an adult child moves back into the family home and pays some rent because the parents don't want them there as freeloaders, are you going to generate a Schedule E to capture this "rental income"?