Contractor was hired and given down payment to start commercial building job. He cleared the land,
then left the country before beginning work on the building. Can I use what I paid him as a loss on the
2020 tax return?
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If this was a personal theft loss, no.
But the good news is, you have some extra basis in the land for whenever you sell it somewhere down the road.
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