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    If you owe money on your home, are you really a 'homeowner?'

    Isn't that the good thing about hell, you can stop doing whatever you don't want and do as you please with no consequences. And if there is a consequence you are already living it. Stop eating in hell and nothing will change, start eating and nothing will change. That being said; this life is...
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    If you owe money on your home, are you really a 'homeowner?'

    Laws and rules mean you are not free, period. It's funny; Americans have this one thing so shoved into their mind from early childhood; USA is the land of free. One has to have the IQ of a rat or never have thought about it to believe America is free. America does not even reside in a...
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    Tax for Forex Trades

    so I was so confused about what section 988 meant, it basically says spot forex profit/loss is to be reported as regular business, like how 1099-MISC is reported where by section 1256 requires profit/loss to be filed on a separate form; form 6781 anyhow here's the link that helped me...
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    Tax for Forex Trades

    I'm thinking forex traded with IB is spot forex and so one should do IRC 988 not IRC 1256, and that is what makes it confusing, I don't know how I'm supposed to go about doing that on TurboTax also greencompany's page reads: "IRC 988, by default, has ordinary gain or loss treatment. Losing...
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    Tax for Forex Trades

    I'd appreciate it if someone could help with this, I found the forex trades on the IB annual statement, but I still don't know how to add the forex trades using TurboTax
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    Tax for Forex Trades

    For first time I traded Forex with IB. I bought and sold some USD, and obviously lost some money; a few thousand. 1. I am using TurboTax, and I can't find where to add the Forex trades. I read somewhere that you add currency trades under "Contracts and Straddles", ok , I go there in...
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